I find it is important to share little parts of how I operate a computer to others who are also cursed to operate computers.
These dotfiles are tracked in a bare git repository. This technique has been described in many different ways.
For reference, I use macOS and Arch Linux on my desktop machines, mostly NixOS for servers (here are my NixOS configurations), and illumos for work.
The description for this repo comes from this excellent tweet.
git clone --no-checkout --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles.git \
--config status.showUntrackedFiles=no \
https://github.com/iliana/dotfiles.git
rm dotfiles/.git; rmdir dotfiles
alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dotfiles checkout
dotfiles submodule update --init --recursive- browser.eme.ui.enabled: false
- browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab: false
- extensions.pocket.enabled: false
- media.eme.enabled: false
- pdfjs.disabled: true (ymmv)
- toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets: true (also userChrome.css)
References: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1388341