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Cake day: January 17th, 2024

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  • Thanks for telling me lol. I remember sharing your enthusiasm when I started.

    If you don’t mind me sharing, here are some tools I use the most in the console:

    • htop: resource monitoring and process killing. Mint has a GUI alternative
    • btop: better resource monitoring, but worse process killing than htop.
    • lazygit: amazing interface for git. Seems hard to get started, but IMO, not at all. There are GUI alternatived.
    • tmux: multiple consoles and console manager. A bit hard to get started.
    • nano: text editor. Reeaaaallly simple to use, prefer it over emacs and vi/vim.
    • grep: you already know this one.
    • cronjobs/crontab: allows you to run periodical commands. Say, a cleanup script all days at 7:08 AM.

    Also, some GUI programs I love:

    • KDE Connect: device pairing with your cellphone and PC. Includes remote mouse input, multimedia control and file sharing.
    • Steam: Almost all the games I play on Steam run flawlessly on Linux.
    • Stellarium: astronomy/planetary app.

    Pick your poison lol. If you don’t mind, we can start talking via ptivate message.


  • I got a Pixel and installed GrapheneOS onto it just 3 days ago and it’s an absolute charm.

    The peace of mind of running a phone whose OS is FOSS out of the box is amazing as well: no need to look for open source variants to apps, nor disable telemetry, nor uninstall trash and unnecesary apps, only to find out apps like Facebook cannot be uninstalled. Basically, a non-bullshit OS, with extra privacy toggles and app sandbox.