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Only the OGs will remember when Steam would sometimes rm -rf /* your system. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

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I recently discovered that you can paste image data from your clipboard to a post or comment field, and it will upload the data and generate an embed link. I assume, since the clipboard is ephemeral, that the data is uploaded and stored on the server immediately.

What happens then if the embed link is removed and never used, but the file isn't deleted by the user? Does it just sit around in storage, collecting dust and taking up space, or is there some sort of garbage collection that detects unused files? What happens to embedded files if the post/comment where it is embedded gets deleted?

It might not look like anything special, but I spent an embarrassing number of hours on this rice, mostly on the non-graphical user interactions. The layout is a custom master-stack implementation, the groupbox widget is an almost complete reimplementation to support a more flexible styling on multihead systems, the Nvidia GPU monitor widget is completely my own, there are popups and context menus out the ass, and there is a persistence module that saves dynamic data (like layouts and group names) between sessions.

Tomorrow I'm moving to Wayland and I might not have the patience to get Qtile running again.

edit: Wallpaper sauce https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/89596288

I originally meant to ask if having /home on a different partition or separate physical device was still warranted, but my ignorance in this matter slowly became apparent.

This is my current setup:

• sda is a 240G SATA SSD that only contains the ESP and the root partition.
• sdb is a 1T SATA SSD entirely dedicated to games and virtual machines.
• sdc is a 3T SATA spinning rust disk mounted on /home, with a 0.5T partition for Timeshift backups.

I recently bought a 2T M.2 NVMe SSD. I'd like to retire sda and sdc (i.e. put them in my junk NAS/backup server), and then reinstall the OS on the new NVMe. My ideas for the new setup:

• I use the entire NVMe drive for ESP and root, no separate /home partition, and mount the 1T SSD as before.
• I use the entire NVMe for ESP and root, move the games and VMs to the root, and use the 1T SSD as the /home partition.
• ESP, ~100-200G root partition, and separate /home partition on the NVMe; games stay on the separate SSD.

The advantages of having /home on a separate device are not lost on me. My question is whether the added complexity is still worth it. I would also like to use LUKS encryption, which I understand to be partition-wide - in which case I'd like to know if there is any significant overhead if I encrypt the root partition. I'm also not opposed to using LVM, but that seems like a little too much for a desktop PC.