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I'd have to add Pi-hole to this list. Anytime I browse the web on another network, I'm reminded just how much crippling ad garbage it's sparing me.
Pi-hole has been an absolutely life-saver to our household. It's typically blocking ~50% of traffic. Using someone else's device and off my network is entirely scary.
Outside of OS & text editor (vim), there is one tool that I use countless times every, single, day: fzf ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ) I can only wonder how much time fzf has saved me in the long term. In terms of "software that I don't use for writing software", iA Writer is probably what I am most grateful for.
On a similar note for Windows: Everything Search. Blazing fast, super easy syntax, powerful search tools. Almost don't remember where most things are stored on my hard drive these days, since they're all just a shortcut and a few characters away
Outside of OS & text editor (vim), there is one tool that I use countless times every, single, day: fzf ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ) I can only wonder how much time fzf has saved me in the long term. In terms of "software that I don't use for writing software", iA Writer is probably what I am most grateful for.
On a similar note for Windows: Everything Search. Blazing fast, super easy syntax, powerful search tools. Almost don't remember where most things are stored on my hard drive these days, since they're all just a shortcut and a few characters away
The built-in Windows search is (for me) abysmal compared to Spotlight search on the Mac, and especially Alfred's interface to Spotlight search. The Windows search seems to switch too early to trying Bing results when I'm only interested in local results.
Never tried Everything before, but I think I've seen it recommended before, so I'm downloading now.
Strangely enough: Windows. Yes, I fucking hate Windows 10/11 for several laundry lists' worth of reasons, but you know what? At the end of the day, Windows is the only desktop OS that enables me to use my computer to do the shit I need or want to do. So long as that fundamental principle as a tool is not violated, I will forever be thankful for Windows regardless what criticism I might have for it.
Isn't that a very sad state of affairs? Why should such a piece of critical global infrastructure be in the hands of a single company?
No love for PhraseExpress / Espanso?
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Fucking finally somebody that says cygwin. Everybody nowadays is "wsl2 this, wsl2 that" but they forget that the OG, which still blows wsl2, it's CygWin. I use it for 2 decades, one of the 2 programs I install whenever I need to use somebody else (usually client) PC; the other one is uBlock Origin.
Why? Because WSL = running Linux on top for Windows, so expect a performance hit? Many many years ago during undergraduate days, I used Cygwin (before being introduced to VirtualBox) to provide a UNIX-y coding environment on my Windows PC. And on these days I prefer docker :D
Everything (Instant file search): https://www.voidtools.com/
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Snapshots and device pools are my favorites. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Features I use snapshots for personal backups, but on BTFS, and it's amazingly simple. 2 LOC: Rsync home to drive and make snapshot.
is BTFS production ready? as in, is it stable these days?
With BTRFS RAID 1 you can set the number of drives, and the number of duplicate data, and can use mixed sized drives. Due to this, I would recommend RAID 1 over RAID 5/6 anyway even if RAID 5/6 was fine.
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Not sure. But I can use it on the Linux kernel without issue, which is 1,107,114 commits at the time I just tested it. So I have never felt a need to limit it. EDIT: Probably could use the "--max-count= " option to `git log` which is documented in the man page.
Hmm. I think I'm missing something basic here. git rebase --interactive is for when you want to take commits you've been baking and now want to clean them up, i.e. squashing some, rewording commit messages, etc, right? I'll usually do something like $ git rebase -i HEAD~5 to clean up the last 5. Can I do this with `git frbi`? Or is the point that I don't need to since all commits are "picked" by default so you just "…
I recommend you try it and it should hopefully make sense.
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I see it a lot from non-techies who I think either don't know how to change it, or reasonably think that it's a conventional way to convey that one is on mobile (to explain why one is more terse, or heads up that they don't have access to info normally on desktop right now, etc.). When the iPhone first game out, and was expensive and hard to get, the signature risked coming across as an affluence brag.