Good question - does the browser plug in sync to the internet or is any part of it internet accessible? I’ve not used it. I just know a lot of people are put off by the idea of their passwords being “in the cloud” or otherwise accessible through the internet. Looking at the add-on for Firefox, it looks like it communicates with the local keepassxc instance, which should be fine for many people.

Thanks. I was not aware of this option.

krename is another excellent, but not as well known as it should be, KDE app.

krename can rename files and directories, and directories recursively, to almost anything. You can rename:

• using information from the files or about the files (image info, date / time info, etc)
• with templates (like #### for incrementing 0001, 0002, 0003, etc)
• by adding parts of the original file name (first three characters then the last 4 characters, for example)
• using find and replace (spaces to underscore, remove special characters, etc), including regular expressions
• by changing case

or with a mix of everything.

krename has a simple mode and an advanced mode for renaming, so you don’t have to jump into the deep end with the features.

You do have to be careful with some of the file info functions - it will happily try to rename a movie or a pdf with (non-existent) image EXIF info, for example. That would result in a file with a name you did not intend.

krusader is a dual-paned file manager for KDE. It runs on Linux (of course), MS Windows, and Mac OSX.

Folder sync is what makes krusader outstanding, even if you don’t care about dual-pane file management. Open the two folders you want to sync in the panes and go to Tools > Synchronize Folders. You can synchronize both ways, exclude files, delete lone files, etc. Very powerful.

Being a KDE app, krusader does not skimp on features, so there are lots of other things that krusader can do.

link: https://krusader.org/

Around 4 or 5 years ago, the Audacity project was acquired by a company that has several other open source music / audio related programs. The first few months did not go well because the company did several things with Audacity that the community didn’t like (like the telemetry that others have mentioned). It seemed like the company was trying to take an uber-popular open source project and convert it into something not in keeping with community expectations. Some forks of Audacity were started.

As others have said, the controversy seems to have died down. Gentoo at least, and probably many other Linux distros, have Audacity and not the forks in their repositories.

A little trick for people who are worried about putting business / work passwords in web-hosted managers such as Bitwarden: put just the username in Bitwarden, and put all the full information into KeepassXC.

Bitwarden will recognize the site and fill in the username - meaning you are at the correct site and are not being phished. Then, you can fill in the password from KeepassXC. This gives the benefits of browser-based managers while keeping more sensitive passwords (and recovery info) local-only.

Just to be clear, there is no official app for Android (and, I assume iPhone). If you are using SyncThing on desktop or laptop computers, there are downloads at the official syncthing.net site. On Linux, it should be available from your distribution.

High school teacher here. Obviously, I don’t speak for everyone, but many of us wish school would start at a more reasonable time for students. We don’t enjoy trying to teach first (and second, and third) period classes where many students are either absent or asleep. And of course, we care about the students and know it would be much healthier for them to sleep in. School can start around 10:00, thanks. But, as others have pointed out, the schedule is not dictated by what is best for the students.

Edit: some of the students in the schools I work at have to get up around 5:00. The often wait for 30+ minutes for buses to come (but that is a “the district doesn’t care about the students” issue, not a start time issue).

Not as bad as the log in button taking you to the sign up page, but my local library’s site has a “log in” button that, when you click it, brings up “log in” and “sign up” options on a CSS drop down (though I’m sure they use javascript, just because why do it the easy, safe way). You literally have to click “log in” twice to get to the log in page.

Yes, this, but I don’t think just for organization’s login pages. The email may also lead to a google sign in (for example) or some other single sign on (SSO). The site you are on needs to know the email to decide what to show next to continue the log in process.

That said, web devs should be coding the fields correctly.

In addition, carts of MS Windows computers (before everyone went 1-to-1) were not great in the classroom - students would save documents to the C drive and then the next day, on a different computer, they shockingly couldn’t find their documents. When my school had a legacy MS windows cart and a couple of Chromebook carts, the students would groan and grumble if their class ended up getting the MS Windows cart.

Also, because MS Windows had (and still has) much higher hardware requirements, the MS Win computers were much more expensive AND time consuming for the techs to maintain. Couldn’t really justify throwing out and replacing a $1000 computer (back in the day). A $200 Chromebook, no big deal. And, with 1-to-1, we can try to get the parents to pay to replace a broken Chromebook. I don’t think we could ask them to replace a much more expensive MS Windows computer.