@harbard Keep backups of your entire home folder. That way if it happens again you can quickly restore. You could use a systemd timer or cronjob to run rsync at a set interval & have it copy everything to a flash drive you leave plugged in, or maybe better to copy, then compress, then delete the copy once you have an archive. That way you can keep multiple backups as .tar.xz files or something, & if your SSD suddenly fails in the middle of a backup you'll at least have part of a functioning copy, allowing you to restore the backup just before it & then update from the partial copy.

I wonder what will cause your entire operating system to disappear, could it have actually been a corruption? I had that once & it caused my operating system to be unbootable because the filesystem was damaged & the computer could no longer find everything required to boot. I was able to repair my ext4 partition by using fsck in a live session off of a USB flash drive, then I was able to boot again & I didn't lose anything.

@Sunsofold Oh ok! I'm pretty sure that's another widget, but I forgot what it's called. The menu bar can be hidden by setting a window rule, then you can add the widget to the desktop or a panel.

@victorz @Gemini24601 Do you mean the app icons on the bottom bar being separated from the launcher icon on the left? The task manager (which displays the app icons) & the launcher (which gives you a categorized list of all installed apps when couches) are different widgets in modern Plasma. You can put other widgets between them, such as a panel spacer like what's shown here. A panel spacer is an invisible widget that takes up a certain amount of space on a panel or can be made "flexible", which will cause it to take up all available space but allow other widgets to take that space back whenever they push against it. Two panel spacers are holding the task manager in the middle of the panel.

@jjba23 Is the code machine generated like their profile picture, or is this a real thing?

@Soapbox1858 I like the color scheme alot! It's similar to mine but darker.

@NorthWestWind Very cool!

@checksout I missed this!
I got the split panel & side bar by just making two more panels. Plasma lets you add extra panels & put them on whichever side of the screen you want. For the two bottom panels I had to manually adjust their sizes so they would only fill the left half or the right half of the bottom. You can probably do this with other desktops that have panels or if you only have a window manager & a bar there's probably a way to duplicate that bar. I think I've seen similar things done with Waybar but I don't know if it's really two bars or if it's just visual. I'm only familiar with Plasma so I have no idea how to do this with anything else.

@unixporn@lemmy.world @unixporn@lemmy.ml @unixporn@lemmy.sdf.org @unixporn@programming.dev This is still a work in progress💔
I keep making very small changes. Panon now only goes through each color once & my terminal now has no window borders or a menu bar, it's just a sheet of glass. I wish I could make my terminal have rounded corners, but that seems like an every window or no window thing. I have also discovered Panel Colorizer & I might need to mess with it & see if I can make something cool out of it.

@Deebster I know that Mastodon does weird stuff to videos, but I'm not sure why the images won't work.

@Deebster If the background is Pokemon, it's from the work in progress post & not this one.

@splatoon@wetdry.world @splatoon@lemmy.world @NorthWestWind @Butterfree Yeah, Discord got rid of permanent links. You now have to buy Discord Nitro or something to have them. Discord went so far downhill so fast.

@splatoon@wetdry.world @splatoon@lemmy.world @NorthWestWind @Butterfree Discord link expired😔