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- Prey project - device lost and found
- Neovim
- sysstat (sar)
- surfraw
- parallel
- gawk
- gpg for ssh
- VMware ESXi
- hwrng for entropy
- Colo your own servers
- /etc/securetty + PAM for passwordless root login on the actual console
- Kerb 5, LDAP, RADIUS
- SNMP
- Nagios-compatible collectors
Microsoft Paint. Yes, photoshop can do 10,000 more things, but sometimes you want quick and dirty and it has all the basics you need.
I wish Mac and Linux had some equivalent to MS Paint. It seems like such a pain just to try to draw crop screnshots and draw circles sometimes.
I still use a typewriter for daily correspondence (both personal and business). This reduces the procrastination of editing and allows for more meaningful, personal, and distraction-free writings. Using a modern word processor definitely allows for better revision / saving / duplication, but most writings shouldn't require so much thought / preparation. Not having a display to distract while thinking definitely allow…
I'd actually enjoy having a typewriter and being locked somewhere far and not have to think about build times. I remember an interview with a hacker who wrote code on paper while he was in jail, said it was extremely productive for him. A lot of modern writers also use typewriters so they can focus better without internet access.
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I have one of those too, but I just enjoy winding it up.
Ha. I have to admit while I don't technically have to wind it (at all) I still find myself doing that as well. Pick it up... wind it a prime number of times... put it on for the day.
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I wish Mac and Linux had some equivalent to MS Paint. It seems like such a pain just to try to draw crop screnshots and draw circles sometimes.
Check out Shotr ( https://shotr.cc ) for mac and flameshot ( https://flameshot.org/ ) for Linux! These apps are totally indispensable in my day-to-day and it sounds like it’ll solve your problem.
CLI over browser apps. There is simply less latency than doing anything using browser tech, and sometimes less clicking than with GUI apps. The ext4 filesystem. Yes, there is no bitrot protection and no snapshots etc, but it's rock-solid as a main OS partition.
Do you happen to know if there's a linux filesystem that has bitrot protection, but doesn't need snapshots? - ZFS is not in the Linux kernel so I don't want to use it for a daily work machine - btrfs works fine but its tools to undelete/recover files when something did go wrong are pretty bad - XFS looks ancient, not sure how good it is - ext4 is also pretty aged by now, but is what I use now after my attempt at btrf…
The zfs license is incompatible with gpl.
That being said zfs is awesome, it is simple to use, about as bulletproof you can get.
grep/ag - text search instead of a big name startup. vim - for text editing. zsh/tmux - for terminal stuff.
Google Keep (replace with text files) - for TODO and not some fancy task management software.