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  • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I’ve used Firefox for over a decade but still wouldn’t trust them to keep all my account info on their servers, Especially not nowadays.

    I already started using KeypassXC to locally store my passwords, just importing bookmarks and add-ons I’ve left to do.

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      3 months ago

      I use file syncing (Syncthing) and symlinks to keep configs for some apps synced between devices. I don’t for Firefox, but it might work.

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        3 months ago

        I’m still a newbie Linux user so haven’t fully delved into Symlinks…besides bricking a VM trying it once when following a guide.

        Can I for instance link a folder where emulators or offline games store save data on my main SSD and have it automatically copied to a folder on my large HDD?

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          3 months ago

          It doesn’t copy data, no. Symlink is short for symbolic link. So it’s a pointer to another location. But it might be useful for you. Taking a guess at your goal, here’s a relevant example.

          Say you moved all of your emulation stuff stored under /media/largehdd/retroarch. You could then symlink that directory to ~/.config/retroarch like so:

          ln -s /media/largehdd/retroarch ~/.config/retroarch

          That data is still stored on the large drive but will now also show under that symlinked directory.