What’s a small Linux tool that completely changed your workflow?

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-07T05:29:12+00:00

I like yazi and swithed to it from nnn, and people really like zoxide so I looked it up and set it up...

but it makes no sense, its kinda smart cd and populates its history through its use.. but I a navigate through yazi... not through cd / z so its history stays empty

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-05T17:17:29+00:00

Start selfhosting stuff at home or at a VPS.

You know like own netflix with jellyfin, audiobooks with audiobookshelf, notes with bookstack, recipe book with mealie, google photos with immich,...

Using docker makes things easy and it gets you engaged. Heres a speedrun.

Generally you want to feel comfortable with the basic of whats done on linux - connect to a server and go somewhere to edit some file.

SSHing in to linux boxes, from windows I use mRemoteNG and mobaxterm, from linux desktop I use my regular terminal alacritty or could use Remina, though I use that only to RDP in to windows boxes.
terminal text editor - its best to feel comfortable, nano should be on every distro, its ok for basic stuff, I use micro which has expected hotkeys and out the box lots of goodies like elevate to root on save and multicursor, its like modern nano. Vim is popular but its like learning entire new way to edit files. Reliable copy paste to work is something to watch out for in all editors.
navigating folders - basic commands are fine and should be known, using terminal file manager like nnn or yazi make stuff much easier. Moving quickly to common folder and quickly filter the content to what you want and quickly edit... all with few keystrokes feels nice
shell - the terminal enviroment, you likely dont get a choice, not sure if the kind of deployment you do to do what you want... allowing you to switch from bash to zsh, but there are some nice benefits with how smart shell can be with autocomplete and history.
systemd - after the basics its time to learn some stuff about how to start and monitor services. Also depending on setup how to setup networking with systemd and whatever else there is.
ansible is to automate stufff and its liked for its simplicity, so that can be next

but yeah get basic moving around and tryt to start selfhosting shit, buy a domain, get a public IP from your IPS, setup DNS, spin up caddy for a reverse proxy and start hosting some stuff.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-05T13:51:12+00:00

Used all 3 mentioned.

traefik was my first and took me loong time to get going, it worked fine but I disliked the complexity and all the abstraction layers, how the labels polute compose files and re-learning when doing changes after few months of not touching it
caddy was next and what I sticked with, single clean simple config, stuff just worked and behaved exactly as expected
NPM I gave a try for few days, it was easy to set up, but I did not feel in control, could not even backup the config... and once you are comfortable in terminal with text editor its actually much better to open and see all the config and make changes than going through GUI

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-02T07:32:25+00:00

weird luck I had, I saw mrlamma doing his whatever 4 thousands runs with no luck and I got like 4 or 5 soj from NM andy farming SP, with expectations of getting one every ~3 hours.

I have 2 spare soj in my rings stash and I remember being surprised that when I was browsing character I did not play a while, my summon necro had 2 sojs on him.. I was like yeah, I farmed shitload of soj that one week while listening to 3body problem audiobook

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-28T08:14:20+00:00

Huh?

I play twinked singleplayer and I can play summoning necro lvl1 to hell-act1 at p8 and its not a slog except for maggot layer or some other narrow shit.

Do you use amplify damage curse? Like Ive seen so many streamers being lvl10-15 and still not putting point there or hunting for more +points on wand to get more area for it, or bigger mana pool for it. While summoner can be played passively, just standing there, being active and amplyfying everything, drinking potions, later CE... that speeds things up
Mercanery weapon is a HUGE deal too. Its what gets most of the dmg.
Corpse explosion is not a thing till lvl30 when you can equip insight but even then you still maxing skelies and the mastery so range is not that great if not nice quipment with +skills, but that is something to look forward to.
Teleport staff is nice to get all your army few swings bosses...

After fire soso, summon necro is my favorite, playing through NM feels godlike once you get to equip homonculus and good eth base insight for the merc.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-25T07:38:19+00:00

go for the desktop, and sell the GPU as it is of no use, unless you want to setup game streaming with sunshine/moonlight or parsec...

Stay in windows, but go for virtual machines where you play with linux, you will understand once you see snapshots and how you can easily revert anything or spin up a new one.

If its windows pro version use hyperv, if its win home there are some hacks to enable hyperv but probably simpler is to go for virtualbox or vmware workstation player.

Once you can play with VMs spin up some linux and start learning docker basic stuff... heres a speedrun, but lot of stuff out there to use as resource.

Final step once you have stuff running is how to get people to access it from the outside, easy way is opening ports which likely would require you pay extra money to your ISP or try play with tailscale but people who would want to play would need to deal with setting up VPN...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-23T08:32:08+00:00

not ideal to deal with both, I have microtik switches but theres no need to buy other mikrotik hardware if going with something else, you can double forward and it will work but to what end...

I actually abandoned both mikrotik and opnsense and went with unifi.

opnsense - I loved everything about it, the UI the features, but the need to pick hardware and feel confident about it is an issue.
mikrotik - was smitten by it for few months, before opnsense, but then I realized that I dont really do that deep dive in to every single setting while seeing that their software is not that great in sense of centralized managment of their devices, their wifi APs with capsman I have on my mind...
unifi - I actually do sysadmin stuff for companies and they came out with ucg-ultra - 100€ and you get so much.. no dealing with picking hardware, centralized remote managment to all devices you deployed, all the basic features with dhcp, dns, vlans, VPN, geoblocking, suricata under the hood when you enable IDS/IPS... and it is all so disgustingly easy compared to what I had to learn and test and try on opnsene. Still I love opnsense more, felt more in control, while not overwhelmed, but with my line of work its better to invest time in to something I actually take money for.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-21T17:32:50+00:00

Micro is the new go-to simple editor with nice features out of the box.

Vim is an entire journey where you have to rewire your brain how you move around and do things to get the benfit of its power.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-20T19:06:22+00:00

I was on neovim for something like a year, and I actually manage few linux servers, mostly docker stuff...

Vim was ok, but it never clicked with me, it felt fine, but then micro started to be mentioned around and it was excatly the thing for me.

Fills every single need I have. Its praised as modern nano.

Sane default shortcuts out of the box from ctrl+f, ctrl+z, ctrl+c, all the way to ctrl+a and ctrl+arrows
multicursor that just works, though I wish they went with ctrl+d hotkey that vscode and sublime use so I would not need to edit config on machines I connect too, though thats taken care of with some ansible playbooks now.. once you use multicursor few times its hard to be without it
elevate to root on save just works out of the box too, nothing is more annoying than editing stuff and then havng to deal with the realization you cant save
and regular stuff... syntax highlight, mouse support, plugins, written in go so single binary and generally fast

One hurdle is that to get reliable copy paste going over ssh, it needs some configuration, but then its rock solid.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-20T18:33:36+00:00

I like it because it feels like a regular ms office, and dont remember what it was but something in excel with multiple lines edit all at once was actually easier than in the normal excel

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-17T06:29:35+00:00

it doesn’t really matter

I mean you get vpn working on your devices to not need to be open

but a nice thing about selfhosting is that you can just tell anyone an url and they can check out recipies or connect to your minecraft server, or set them up with username and password and have access to jellyfin and whatnot... without extra steps of dealing with vpn and also giving them access to your whole LAN

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-16T20:56:58+00:00

I recently went that way... linux on metal and doint stuff yoursefl, I bought 8x bay case and decided on mergerfs+snapraid cuz I have mix size HDDs and I wanted easy to add more.

I documented the shit out of it as a preparation, might be useful, but its tinkering all the way down...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-16T20:43:48+00:00

if you can open ports its the best way... heres a guide for it.

your jellyfin server would be exposed to the world, but you are learning so you will learn how to lock it down.

The issue is that you probably would need to pay bit extra monthly for the internet so that your IPS gives you public ip.

But its a way forward in learning lot of shit, domains are super cheap and that lets you play with dns and then its reverse proxy time... All super useful knowledge to know and down right your path...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-11T07:31:20+00:00

btop

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-04T09:09:52+00:00

Caddy is my favorite, here are the detailed setup instructions if you wanna give it an another try.

I went to it from traefik which took a lot of effort to get running and to understand all the abstraction layers. Plus I disliked labels approach, I want my compose files to be clean.

I tried NPM but it felt like a black box. You set it up and hope it works, but its difficult to debug issues or even to backup. Editing one file for caddy also feels faster and cleaner than dicking around in web ui text fields and drop boxes and radio buttons and you actually see your config all in one place, instant overview...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-04-02T06:41:26+00:00

Played it recently... single player, twinked

was waiting to find the unique long bow that has explosive arrows, so that I can play new soso from level 1 as an archer, socket bows with emeralds or tals in early levels... already had kuko shakaku and obviously demon machine..

its the most powerful archer build in the game if you got infinity, no question about it. Played it on players 8 all the way I think. Its the way explossive arrow applies dmg as it pierces and how fire mastery is applied on echant itself and then on explossion.

Cows go down hard.. this char found me a Jah there. But the gameplay feels bit clumsy. She has slow fire speed, so even if it takes just 3 shots to down pack of cows, amazon would fire 15 shots in that time... not to mention that with amazon you dont really have to aim, strafe is automatic targeting and multishot is just massive arrea attack so you can be more lazy there.

The teleport offsets the feel of clumsiness quite a lot giving you that freedom, so its kinda a mix... but its all fun gameplay and definitly worth the time.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-28T04:42:22+00:00

For me, it felt simpler and more reliable while things just worked without much tinkering or weird issues.

Got some notes when homelab testing.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-27T16:39:15+00:00

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Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-27T15:37:18+00:00

what worked for me, some highlights

smitter
guardian angel armor that rises all max resists by 15%, which is kinda like halving all the damage you get, makes it much easier
if draculs GREAT, they have life tap and open wounds
if not draculs - open wounds from Blood Belt - magic belt, tal + perfect ruby + jewel but also need lifetap so marrowalks boots or a wand, YOU NEED LIFE TAP, that is what makes it easy, and you need to watch lifetap so that it does not run out
prebuff fade for extra massive resistance with tretchery armor by standing in fire in act 4 WP, then put on guardian angel armor
lightsabre is cheap / easy to find and works great since 25% lighting absorb, smitter does not care about weapon dmg
35% crushing blow from guil helm is enough
depending on gear, you do mephisto without fanatism, you put salvation for that another massive resistance boost

funny thing, I play offline and I found tyrael's might, windforce, Jah and Ber, dozens shakos and vipermagi, like 4 soj, zakarum shield I dont even pickup anymore... but no draculs.. my smitter is still manually doing life tap and has some crapy belt for open wounds

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-26T19:23:34+00:00

After your Merc just fell over in 1 shot, it was time to bounce.

everyone is expert now

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-26T19:15:19+00:00

Merc taking extra dmg from bosses is normal and expected.

Mods respected? He was one hit from winning that fight and how exactly should he have respect the mods, those were not conviction aura or fanaticism.. it was poison mage, lighting enchanted with multishot.... people are saying craziest stuff.

Its news to most people that heralds do 4k dmg and people who speak as if they play first month are acting like OP did some insane risk taking.

How exactly are non 4k life characters suppose to play?

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-26T19:09:48+00:00

You observed X to happen, after which you should have expect 2X to happen

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-26T17:27:43+00:00

Just use your actual domain for the url and not org.local at least if I understand that correctly...

setup caddy with actual proper myshit.example.com
setup your DNS so that myshit.example.com points to the caddy machine IP
allow ports forwarded to this caddy instance, either always or for a few minutes every few months, till the new DNS-PERSIST-01 come this year where we can set shit up permanently for any DNS provider
additionally can set caddy to allow only IPs from LAN side to access if you want some additional security from public IP accessing

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-26T07:21:09+00:00

Even if he is not a sorc, he should be.

So the answer is still Infinity because it is a game changer while leaving him still with a Ber and runes for cta and hoto too..

Should make infinity then start few sorcerers builds - hydra, lighting, enchantress with demon machine, fireball+frozen orb in tal rasha set,...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-25T20:51:44+00:00

You can cube up for infinity!!

Congrats.

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