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I do a similar thing for code stuffs, generally always make a
~/Gitand~/Godotso I always have a spot for things.I also delete most of the auto-created ones if I'm using a DE that does that, because I have my own organization going on with various external/network drives. Only one I have always kept is
~/Downloads.Okay what is this
<sub>convention everyone is using and why is it sometimes</sub>?I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about. Do you mean the directory names?
In unix,
~expands to the user's home directory path and/just separates each level in the path.Just so you can see what I saw:
Very weird. For some reason Boost displays those like the strings I wrote. Looking at this in the web client now, I see
~. Which btw I'm familiar with :) Thanks for the response!Ohhh, very odd. I've been noticing a lot of inconsistencies between Lemmy and PieFed like this, and now an app is something else entirely. Seems the fediverse is not unified on markdown support!
Apologies if I came off as condescending, not my intention.