14 docs tagged with "Linux"

It's a good idea to keep your system well maintained. Arch has a wiki article in which they describe best practices on how to maintain your Arch system according to them.

Usenet is interesting and useful. Let's not get into it too much. For now, focus is on the particularly useful arr suite.

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For the longest time I have disabled my CapsLock key. I used to hit it from time to time and get annoyed by having to redo the bit I was typing, but this time not in all caps. For a little while I also used it in a keybinding, but found that using VoidSymbol (the key it will register as when disabled) is flakey. So this left me with a big button, right on the home row of my keyboard that does nothing at all, which is a waste.

An RSA keypair will be created using the following commands. This will allow for connecting to a server from your machine without using a password.

I'm trying to only enjoy content I like. I try not to get involved in social media. Not to get into that trap of watching one thing followed by the next, and then the next thing. I don't do Twitter, I don't do Facebook, I don't do Instagram, I don't do Tiktok. I do like some content on YouTube. This presents me with a problem. If I were to go to the site they offer, I'd watch the video I came for and then I'd watch the next one they offer, and then the following and then... well, you get the idea. This is a rabbit hole I want to not get into. Hence I found a solution to this, by making sure I only watch what I like and nothing more.

Extensions make your browsing experience better, or at least some extensions will. I will explain why I use each of the following and I'll try to convince you that you should at least try (some of) them for yourself. I'm going to list these worst-to-best, though they are all amazing in their own right.

I love to use MPRIS (Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification), which is a standard DBUS interface to manage (among other things) audio playback on your system. I use it through playerctl, which is a command line utility which provides a command line interface to media players that support MPRIS.

Fuzzy file finding is amazing. It really is. You can search a query containing at least part of what you're looking for and it'll find it. It's like magic. My fuzzy file finder of choice is called fzf.

Everyone handles backing up their dotfiles in their own way. Some people use GNU Stow, some manually back them up, some don't bother and some have a script. I have a script.

For some reason I like to use Thunar as a file manager. It's been my go-to for years now. It has worked a treat for ages, however I used to want to edit text files (like configuration files) in Code (the editor). I don't anymore. I want to be able to edit those files in Micro, which runs in the terminal.

So I have been using scrot to take screenshots for ages. The only downside has been the inability to grab just a portion of the screen. There are newer applications that do this out of the box. Applications like Flameshot. The downside of that application is that it pulls the entire Qt5-base and several other Qt applications down with it. I do not use any Qt applications, so having to pull down all of those just to take a partial screenshot is insane to me.

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I use Firefox as my main web browser. I have been for decades. The only thing I really dislike about it is the total amount of space the UI takes up.