I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.

I’ve already learned:

  • Equations and pivot tables in Excel

  • Vector graphics in Inkscape

  • Music mixing in rekordbox

  • Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN

  • LAMP stack web hosting

  • Streaming & video capture with OBS

  • Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync

Things I’m open to:

  • FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software

  • A high or low learning curve

  • Tools for niche fields that I’d otherwise have no reason to learn

  • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    23 hours ago

    ssh and scp (secure connection and file transfer)

    grep (the standard command-line search tool)

    sed (Stream EDitor, good for find-replaces once you learn how to use it)

    awk (can operate on text files or command output that’s organized in columns)

    sc (terminal-based spreadsheet)

    trash (safer replacement for rm that moves things to your desktop’s trash directory instead of deleting immediately)

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      13 hours ago

      trash is a nice idea, but i guess it’s hard to overcome the muscle memory, i might need to rename rm for it ;)

      btw: does somebody else pronounces awk as awkward?

      • JojoWakaki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        I was thinking that too, I wonder if rm can be aliased to trash. I mean it probably can as I do have alias rm='rm -i'. Wondering if it breaks anything.

        • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          13 hours ago

          from what you wrote, i would guess bash is first checking through aliases. anyway that’s something to better read up before trying on a non-test system