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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Heh welcome!

    If I was to give anyone advice it’d be to set up a way to make really solid notes/documentation. Be it a text/markdown file or a google doc. Put down the commands you run, put down the steps and then a link to where you found it. As you muck around and so on you’re going to remember that you wanted to get xyz going and you struggled and you can then refer back to those notes.

    That has been the single most valuable thing I’ve learnt from this whole Linux endeavour I’ve been on.

    When I reinstall I just follow my notes to get all the devices and so on going. Definitely worth the trouble!

    Good luck and tell us how you go!







  • I have to say that I used to be a timeshift fan but I’ve started moving to snapper instead. Both are very similar but with snapper you can have multiple configs, one per sub vol. each with different settings. I like having a separate root and home schedules set up. Means I can restore one or the other independently. Works a treat.






  • Here are mine. Sorry for the mouth full, but I think people may benefit from some of these :)

    alias ll="ls -alkhF"
    alias l="ls -1"
    
    # BE CAREFUL WITH THIS AND COULD RETURN COLOR KEYCODES INTO PIPES ETC...
    alias grep='grep --color=always' 
    
    alias db='dotnet build'
    
    alias gs='git status'
    alias gf='git fetch'
    alias gl='git pull'
    alias gp='git push'
    alias gpt='git push --tags'
    alias gP='git push --force-with-lease'
    alias ga='git add'
    alias gd='git diff'
    alias gw='git diff --word-diff'
    setopt interactive_comments
    preexec(){ _lc=$1; }
    alias gcm='git commit -m "${_lc#gcm }" #'
    
    # THE BELOW TO BE USED ALONG WITH THE FOLLOWING GIT ALIASES:
    #[alias]
    #	logo = log --pretty=tformat:'%C(auto,red)%m %C(auto,yellow)%h%C(auto,magenta) %G? %C(auto,blue)%>#(12,trunc)%ad %C(auto,green)%<(15,trunc)%aN%C(auto,reset)%s%C(auto,red) %gD %D' --date=short
    #	adog = log --all --decorate --oneline --graph
    #	dog = log --decorate --oneline --graph
    
    alias glog='git logo'
    alias gdog='git dog'
    alias gadog='git adog'
    
    alias gb='git branch'
    alias gba='git branch --all'
    alias gco='git checkout'
    alias gm='git merge'
    alias gt='git tag | sort -V | tail'
    
    alias rl='source ~/.zshrc'
    alias n='nvim'
    
    # LIST PATHS OF OTHER ZSH SHELLS I HAVE OPEN
    lssh() {
    	ps au \
    		| awk '$11 == "-zsh" || $11 == "/bin/zsh" { print $2 }' \
    		| xargs pwdx \
    		| awk '{ print $2 }' \
    		| sed -n "\|^${2}.*|p" \
    		| sort -u \
    		| nl
    }
    
    # CD TO SHELL NUMBER RETURNED BY LSSH
    cdsh() {
    	cd $(lssh \
    		| sed "$1!d" \
    		| cut -f 2)
    }
    
    # CD TO PATH OF ANOTHER SHELL, USING FZF AS SELECTOR
    cs() {
    	cmd1=$(lssh | fzf --select-1 --query "$1" --height=~50 | cut -f 2)
    	cmd="cd $cmd1"
    	print -S $cmd
    	eval $cmd
    }
    
    # RUN THE COMMAND FROM HISTORY, USING FZF AS SELECTOR, ALTERNATIVE TO <C-R>
    hf() {
    	cmd=$(history 0 | sort -nr | cut -c 8- | fzf -e --select-1 --no-sort --query "$1" )
    	# push the command into the history
    	print -S $cmd
    	eval $cmd
    }
    
    # REMMINA USING THE CONNECTION FILE SELECTED USING FZF
    rf() {
    	pushd ~/.local/share/remmina
    	cmd=$(remmina -c $(ls $PWD/* | fzf -e --select-1 --no-sort --query "$1"))
    	# push the command into the history
    	print -S $cmd
    	eval $cmd
    	popd
    }
    

  • I’m running Manjaro, and after installing blue man, and pairing I’ve not had any issues. Thankfully!

    I do need to manually switch between a2dp and headset modes when I do video conference calls. I’m just used to doing it now. Heh made an easy keybind for my profiles so it’s not bad.

    I’ve tried these on multiple Manjaro builds and have always worked. Maybe I was just lucky with Arch and Manjaro supporting this. Phew!

    Other than the problem, how are you finding them? I’ve found them the best earphone investment I’ve ever made. They are awesome and so portable. Used them on the plane a bunch and they are great :)


  • I have like 10 old laptops that I mess around with. Got various Linux distros on them.

    I have patience as I know some of these machines are older.

    I’m basically going to say for me. Specs doesn’t matter. What matter is a good quality display. I value that highly for web browsing. Yes, all the laptops I have here have shitty displays 😞

    I have a couple of old tablet/convertable netbooks. They have quite nice displays, just small. 2GB RAM and Intel Atom CPUs. They are quite slow but the display more than makes up for it heh. (HP and an old MS Surface)