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I've tried syncing the entire elfeed-db-directory across machines, but have ended up with missing entries in the data subdirectory, as well as constant file conflicts.

From this old post I see that Skeeto suggested syncing only the index file, which seems like the way to go.

I see that elfeed-protocol has been mentioned as a possible solution but I think that requires some notion of a central/default server that fetches RSS feeds.

Would appreciate hearing any solutions or approaches to this -- thanks in advance.

I realize it's been 30 years since this class happened but surely other people remember or know about this unhinged shit and if not I have to share this on almost the anniversary of graduating sixth grade.

Backstory: Lawton Elementary had a tradition of Mr. Crell, one of two sixth grade teachers, putting on the school play every year. He usually did the traditional plays: Little Shop of Horror, Beauty and Beast, etc.

But for some reason in 1996 he decided he was going to make a play himself which he took Jerome K. Jerome's "The Palpitating Heart" that was in our English textbooks (The story is basically about a very anxious man who is in love with an oblivious woman because our anxiety guy is the shy I'm going to flirt with you telepathically and how dare you not pick up on it type and he creates love triangle narrative and due to his bad communication skills he worries himself to death and the female lead is just like wow I had no clue.) And continue with an OJ Simpson style trial of the woman and other guy on trial for the murder of the palpitation guy that would include mock dancing judges just like the dancing judges on Jay Leno.

As an adult especially after some indulgences, I can appreciate the unhinged surreal humor of all this but as a 12 year old, I was really fucking confused because his plot didn't make sense. For the life of me, I can't remember how this was supposed to end. I'm not sure if he ever told us the end because one day he basically announced to the class that because we were the worse class he had ever had in X amount of years, he was cancelling the play. I mean, he really went in on us about how it was our faults we couldn't put on this grand play of his. Personally, I think he never figured out a good ending to this play or some parents/staff go involved.

For everyone who didn't go to Lawton, I need to tell you how Mr Cell looked to really set the scene of this. This man showed up in suits every damn day, he would do these little movements when he was talking so he'd kinda flash the label, like it was a subtle look at how much money I have with my Armani suits, he'd wear those big fancy block sunglasses that were worn by tough guys back in the 1980/90s and leather or alligator shoes with matching belt. I swear every year he'd have a new car and distinctly remember him having a purple Plymouth prowler at one point. He'd always have his hair was sprayed so much it was like a black helmet slicked back and gold jewelry and his skin was always that tanned leather look. Looking back as an adult, the man looked ridiculous.

Apologies if this comes up here too often, but I realized that, having settled into my current config a few years ago, I basically only update packages after upgrading to a newer Emacs version -- so effectively every 12-18 months (excluding stuff like mu and pdf-tools which have external dependencies).

I don't think this is ideal (particularly because I have 150+ external packages installed!) but I'm slightly put off from doing it more often because of the occasional dependency hell that crops up when upgrading packages like e.g. magit (which is very useful, but I run into issues with transient most of the time). I do use straight.el so I can keep a lock file etc. in case things go wrong, but often just deleting the package repo and reinstalling it is the easiest solution.

Given the current wave of LLM-driven unearthing of security vulnerabilities, what would be a more optimal schedule for updating? Once a month?

There's also the issue of supply chain attacks (similar to incidents with npm in the past -- not an expert on this but that's what springs to mind) where I've seen some suggestions to refrain from upgrading too quickly in order to avoid introducing new vulnerabilities to your system.

Thoughts?

If it were adjusted for today, Sam Tyler would have gone back to 1993. Maybe they'd call it "Don't Look Back in Anger" and Gene Hunt would be busting illegal raves.