I understand where you're coming from, but I think I prefer the ease of use of something like KDE. I tried sway for a while, only to figure out that I am not really a tiling window manager type of person :)

Thanks for the tip though!

Yes, my way is extremely confusing, even more than I thought before writing this. That picture with the firefox workspace in the middle really made it hit home. I don't recommend anyone to follow it.

Using the numpad as a grid workspace is an amazing idea I'd never thought of!

Not really my kind of thing since I don't really like to move my wrists much as I use my pc, but I've gotta admit, when I first saw it while I was researching for another commenter I just looked at my numpad and thought "genius". I had a grid in my keyboard and hadn't even noticed it. Maybe if I had known that a few years ago I would have used it, but nowadays, I prefer the workflow I have. Thanks for the amazing comment, nevertheless!

The reason why I am asking this question is because I think that the ssh port I am opening only has access to my repos (which means that even if I somehow get hacked the damage is minimal) and it doesn't accept any keys aside from mine and my friend's, which we set up through the web interface :).

I have wireguard setup and I'd also thought about sharing a tunnel with my friend, but it seemed much more hasslesome than simply opening the port, not to mention the fact that if anyone wanted to join too I'd have to do that again.

It is exactly because I am afraid of getting fucked that I am asking this and being careful. For now, my idea is to only open the port when someone is about to use it, since I am not absolutely sure that it won't somehow accept a request from a person with less than noble intentions. (either that, either simply use tokens)

Reverse proxying was also my intention at first, but I just couldn't get it to work with cloudflare for some reason!

Thanks for the insight!

That's very interesting, especially the mouse part. I hadn't thought about remapping its buttons to anything related to KDE, and unfortunately I don't think that is possible in mine.

I am also surprised you can manage 20 desktops in two monitors. How much ram do you have, both in your brain and in your computer?! And the part where the grid is synced between the screens also feels a little weird to me, but even though I only use a single monitor, I can definitely see the appeal. Obviously, the biggest issue with doing that is that you have to have corresponding workspaces on both monitors at all times, but with 20 workspaces on each side, you can certainly get a lot of combinations. You could get two instances of firefox open in a different sets of workspaces, one for work and another for leisure, for instance. Firefox profiles are great for that!

Even then, I need to say it, 20 desktops on each side is a lot. For such a large number, you could consider activities, but since you seem to change desktop through the desktop grid, with no need for shortcuts, I can see how it becomes more manageable. Your setup seems very creative and unusual, at least for me.

Thanks for the comment!

Wow, now that's a very intricate setup. The fact that the windows don't go to their corresponding activity seems weird, maybe it's a bug? Seems like it'd be hard to find the cause, though.

Also, when you reboot, do the windows with different firefox instances stay with the same tabs open? Are the profiles kept? Since I prefer to start on a clean slate, I start a new session and simply autostart my usual apps which are bound to their respective desktops. But if even those two are kept, it does seem pretty damn great. Pretty similar to suspending, in a way. Too bad about the activities part though.

Yeah, I also noticed that and felt the same!

Strangely enough, although I could've sworn there was a simple command for that, I could only find scripts. You can use them if you want, should be easy to find, but a surprising workaround someone mentioned was using the numpad as the grid.

A good suggestion, but it would still be hasslesome to setup. Plus, my friend would have to connect to the vpn whenever he wants to push/pull the repo

I had never heard that term. I think I am bad at multitasking, but not to that point! :0 Maybe I'll take an online monotropism test tomorrow and see what I get, just for fun

I don't really remember how to do it, but think I remember there was a way to map ctrl+meta+down to workspace + 3, and ctrl+meta+up to workspace -3, which gave the same effect. I'll see if I can find it

I am still very much a noob to self-hosting, but I am not the one managing this ssh port, forgero is. Is there not any difference between the two? I think you can only access the forgejo ssh if you have a matching private key for one of the user's public keys...

(And although it surprised me too, I couldn't find information about the safety of specifically this online)

That's also a possibility, yes. Probably what I should do, taking the rest of the answers into account

Yes, hosting the site seems much safer (at least in theory) since I am proxying it through cloudflare and I am planning on putting ngynx too on top of that this afternoon

(And signup is disabled, so hopefully only trusted users can access it)

Wow, buying a big monitor sounds like an idea that could work. I'd never even thought about doing that, since most of the times monitors like those are used, as far as I have seen, to get a better multitasking experience and I am the type of person who simply leaves one fullscreen window open at the time. But if it leaves your peripheral vision, I guess it is definitely possible.

I don't think it'd work for me, but honestly, sounds like a great idea to have in mind! I'm having a lot of fun learning about different people's workflows like this.

I see, only allowing established traffic to connect sounds like something that could work. But I don't know how I can do this, do you have some pointers :)?

Blocking outgoing traffic and having to whitelist forgejo seems a bit extreme though

I'd rather not say which router I have since it would reveal quite a bit of information about me. However, I do know that the connections that my router allows are tcp and udp

Yes, or else I wouldn't have access to the web interface haha