Setup

Dotfiles and some setup instructions.

Some useful links here

Use the Jetbrains Mono font.

ZSH

Install oh-my-zsh.

Install the powerlevel10k theme. Remember to install the fonts.

Install fzf.

Install ripgrep. There's a setting on .zshrc for using this instead of the default find on fzf.

Use the .zshrc from this repository.

Git

Install diff-so-fancy for better diffs.

An alternative for diff-so-fancy is diff-highlight which comes bundled with git, but diff-so-fancy looks nicer.

Use the .gitconfig from this repository.

Vim

Install vim-plug.

User the .vimrc from this repository.

Photo management

TODO: I need to revisit this

I use a combination of apps, because no single app does exactly what I want.

On my linux computer I install phockup and the default photos app from ElementaryOS.

The photos app is just a convenient way to periodically import photos from cameras and phones into a temporary folder. I use ~/Pictures.

After importing I make sure to delete the ones I don't want and I run phockup to organize them into a folder structure:

phockup ~/Pictures /media/bigdisk/photos --timestamp -m -d YYYY/MM-M

I mount the synology drive by adding this line to /etc/fstab:

# Synology NAS
192.168.0.100:/volume1/backups /media/synbackup nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

I have a cron job that rsyncs that folder to my Synology NAS:

0 * * * * rsync -aXzbP --backup-dir=old_`date +%F` --delete --exclude=old_* /media/bigdisk/photos/ /media/synbackup/photos/

The NAS has a Hyper Backup setup into an Amazon Drive. It also synchonizes photos to Google Drive so I have them available on Google Photos. Unfortunately there's no uploader client for Linux so those uploads count to my Google Drive quota, which I easily exceed. So I have to pay for it.

Other

• Spotify: sudo snap install spotify
• TLDR pages