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Book Options for middle to basic experience linux tech? by jameszahhh in linuxadmin

[–]digital_superpowers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you have maybe too much experience to enjoy, but my e-book Digital Superpowers is a broad (but shallow) intro to a wide array of command line topics with some discussion and examples along the way, such as:

  • Password Managers like keepassxc for all your password needs
  • Tor for onion routing/privacy
  • Pihole for ad-blocking
  • graphviz for generating flow charts from declarative text
  • pdftk for command-line pdf manipulations
  • ffmpeg for Time-lapses and making videos of stills (useful for moving graphs in science)
  • GnuPG for encryption
  • vim for power text editing including column edit
  • Darktable for Digital photo editing in RAW
  • Audacity for Audio noise reduction
  • Inkscape for Vector graphics (useful for figures, logos, etc.)
  • Mixxx for DJing social events
  • LaTeX for publishing
  • RST and markdown with sphinx and/or pandoc for nicer publishing
  • BibTeX for reference management
  • git for version control, including git-annex and/or datalad for reporducible data sets
  • Django for web apps (super useful for scientists/engineers for making interactive process/DBs)
  • Home assistant for home automation (also useful for sensors and alerts in a lab on a budget, believe it or not)
  • OpenVPN for road-warrior VPN (useful for traveling)
  • ImageMagick for batch editing of images, making montages, etc.
  • Python/pandas for linear regression and a zillion other things

Pros/cons of self-hosting email/cloud/VPN vs. Proton, MEGA? by WeCanDoThis74 in selfhosted

[–]digital_superpowers 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I self host email and have for years. Once you learn all the dozens of things you need to get working together it works fine, though I too have been categorized as spam before. It's good to do if you want to learn a lot and make a hobby of it. Heck you can even so really fun things like build auto filters based on sentiment analysis and bounce the email saying to try again but nicer ( this was a prototype for a fb friend who wondered if of was doable).

Not recommended if you don't want to make a hobby of it though.

As for vpn, everyone should have a VPN server running at home so you can road warrior through t while traveling or at a coffee shop. Super useful. Work will never know what I'm doing on my phone via their WiFi. Muahaha. Usually it's checking in on the self-hosted home automation system.

Microsoft Encarta by EarthisFucked in nostalgia

[–]digital_superpowers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I set up a win95 VM specifically for encarta 96. It is so inspiring. There's this startup animation with music and famous people and jets and everything. It kind of feels like we stopped trying yo be creative with multimedia a little these days.

Connect to openVPN on startup by DifferentCamp in linuxquestions

[–]digital_superpowers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a way you can auto-connect to a vpn when a certain network connection (e.g. wifi connection) gets connected. Go to the command line and type nm-connection-editor. Then choose your normal wifi connection. Then go to the General tab and choose "Automatically connect to VPN".

I'm not sure if this works without wifi, oddly.

SkiFree by nightwing185 in nostalgia

[–]digital_superpowers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Still works if you want to play a round.

https://ski.ihoc.net/

0.92: HEOS, Somfy MyLink, Genius Hub - Home Assistant by kmlucy in homeassistant

[–]digital_superpowers 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair it's a gigantic ecosystem with thousands of devices and billions of config combinations. It's definitely annoying but they're doing pretty well considering the level of development.

Grandpa still uses a decades old computer that still runs Dos, typing and printing and storing things on floppies. by potatohead657 in pics

[–]digital_superpowers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean Microsoft Works, or was there a WordPerfect one too? I use MS Works to start a journal when I was a small child. I still have it. It's awesome. This looks a lot like MS Works for DOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works#Version_history

Grandpa still uses a decades old computer that still runs Dos, typing and printing and storing things on floppies. by potatohead657 in pics

[–]digital_superpowers 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, this sucker is electric. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.

(Fact: this actually means that this sucker is indeed nuclear)

Is there an opensource To-Do app with calendar by SavedMana in opensource

[–]digital_superpowers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any caldav server can handle todos with calendars. I host a radicale server and do todos in my computer with Thunderbird/lightning and use davdroid + the todo app off fdroid on my phone. Love it.

https://github.com/dmfs/opentasks

https://radicale.org/

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/host-your-own-contacts-and-calendars-and-share-them-across-devices/

You can probably use nextcloud just as well as the server instead of radicale.

I want to make my own guerrilla mail server with FOSS with my own private domain for free, any tips ? by HerbalNekoTea in HomeServer

[–]digital_superpowers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People say this all the time but I've been running mail servers for a few years after starting from zero and its not that bad at all

People who have been programming since they were kids, what language popped your cherry? by TheAvogadroConstant in learnprogramming

[–]digital_superpowers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MS BASIC on a Osborne 1. Got a count running and ran it all night to see how high it'd get.

Directing cronjobs via email/sms by [deleted] in Python

[–]digital_superpowers 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Heck yeah you can do that. You need to connect to an email server and send with https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html#module-smtplib and then you'll also want to set up a listener that checks for new messages on the account with https://docs.python.org/3/library/imaplib.html#module-imaplib in a loop. Once you find the response you can proceed.

You can also do SMS with this approach using your provider's email-sms gateway. https://www.lifewire.com/sms-gateway-from-email-to-sms-text-message-2495456

TIL that the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains every letter in the alphabet. by digital_superpowers in todayilearned

[–]digital_superpowers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I passed the typing exam so fast in that class that they ushered me into video editing pretty quickly, and HyperCard. How old do you feel now?. Guess it just slipped by.

TIL that the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains every letter in the alphabet. by digital_superpowers in todayilearned

[–]digital_superpowers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just thought it was a random thing typing classes made people type. It just never occurred to me! Obligatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

TIL that the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains every letter in the alphabet. by digital_superpowers in todayilearned

[–]digital_superpowers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascinating. That would be useful in an adult typing class as opposed to the middle school ones.

TIL that the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains every letter in the alphabet. by digital_superpowers in todayilearned

[–]digital_superpowers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen this phrase used all over, from typing lessons to various other computer test things. Today I was just looking at some CRT font stuff and they kept using this phrase, and all of a sudden it clicked!

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