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#lifeHack: use TOML instead of YAML. Why? Well, why does Cargo (Rust) use it? https://users.rust-lang.org/t/why-does-cargo-use-toml/3577/17
It's also a good alternative to INI and JSON for configuration. Take a look at https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
BTW, YAML has stuff like implicit typing, which is absolute garbage. I've considered StrictYAML, but that's Python-specific (http://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/turing-complete-schema)
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OK, so I still didn't go to bed, and I have a #lifeHack to share. Want to get head/tail or init/last on your bourne shell script's parameters? Welp, take a look at this - it's pretty cool, check the screenshot to understand what's going on.
Head: ${@:1:1}
Tail: "${@:2}"
Init: "${@:1:$#-1}"
Last: ${@:$#}
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Hey, here's a surprise bonus #lifeHack, everyone! 🎉
Ever wanted to shut down, reboot, etc. from a script without root permissions or dealing with your init? This should work at the very least with GNOME :nombread:
https://askubuntu.com/a/454077/45926
e.g. shut down the computer with this:
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 "org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.PowerOff" boolean:true
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Do I count this as a #lifeHack? I guess so?
Use KDE Connect with GNOME: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect
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Back to the #lifeHack lifestyle! 😎
Have you ever noticed font rendering sucks on :voidlinux: ? No problem, just do this:
mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d
ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/{10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf,70-no-bitmaps.conf} ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
Based on info at http://blog.brunomiguel.net/geekices/how-to-get-good-font-rendering-in-void-linux
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Hi everyone! Xerzthony Xerztano here, the busiest #lifeHack nerd on the Internet, and today we have a guide on how to to not do shitty encding with ffmpeg for the most popular codecs.
tl;dr: Read the wrap-up, then check the commands and understand them. The most important part is probably CRF, attached as the second picture on this toot.
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Hi everyone! Xerzthony Xerztano here, the busiest #lifeHack nerd on the Internet, and today we have a guide on how to to not do shitty encoding with ffmpeg for the most popular codecs.
tl;dr: Read the wrap-up, then check the commands and understand them. The most important part is probably CRF, attached as the second picture on this toot.
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Forgot the link, sorry: http://slhck.info/video/2017/03/01/rate-control.html
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And it's time for another #lifeHack, yay~ I missed those...
Actually, they're two, both related to :gnu: Bash! First one you may have read before on my :twitter: or :gnusocial: and it's nice, because it lets you invoke your aliases with `sudo`:
alias sudo='sudo '
This works because aliases on bourne shells, by default, only subsitute the first word of a command by the associated string, BUT if you use a space as the last character of that string, then it looks for aliases for the next word.
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You may have also found out that your Bash history sucks, because every single time you write something it ends up there, even if you're just repeating a command over and over. How do you avoid this? Well, you use the HISTCONTROL variable, of course!
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
Check the `man` for more info on that. There's also a HISTIGNORE, in which you can set a list of patterns for... ignoring!
Oh, and here you can see how to clean your current history https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/48716/218415
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Today we have a whole new #lifeHack for a lovely piece of bloat – I'm talking, of course, about Firefox! :firefox:
You want better privacy protection? Enable first party isolation by changing this at about:config
privacy.firstparty.isolate = true
This works on both desktop and mobile Firefox! More info here: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/11/22/how-to-enable-first-party-isolation-in-firefox/
(also read https://www.privacytools.io/#about_config if you haven't yet)
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Here's a #lifeHack I'm adding into here only because nobody seems to have done it before for some reason lmao :woah:
I'm trying to backup a Linux USB on Windows, thus I need something like dd for copying. All I can find is this Stack Overflow (https://superuser.com/questions/839502/windows-equivalent-for-dd) filled with shitty answers. Most people replying don't even seem to know how to read.
The solution? Well, it turns out I already have Cygwin installed, so:
1) `cat /proc/partitions` to see which device it is
2) Use dd like usual
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OK, so yes, someone else tried out... and got this error. lol. https://superuser.com/questions/580968/how-to-use-cygwin-to-copy-an-image-from-an-sd-memory-card
Just run the Cygwin terminal as admin.
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Contributed my own reply, hopefully it'll be helpful to someone https://superuser.com/a/1314103/359767
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Hey, everyone! Your favorite show is BACK! That's right, welcome again to the :rainbowdance: #lifeHack :rainbowdance: lifestyle!
Today we have a special one for (U)EFI! Did you know that you can boot straight into Linux, without any bootloader at all? Use `efibootmgr` to create a boot entry that will get you straight into the kernel with whichever options you want.
This is too hardcore for a simple toot so please check Arch and Gentoo's wikis:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB#Using_UEFI_directly
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Efibootmgr#Creating_a_boot_entry
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Hey, everyone! Your favorite show is BACK! That's right, welcome again to the :rainbowdance: #lifeHack :rainbowdance: lifestyle!
Today we have a special one for (U)EFI! Did you know that you can boot straight into Linux, without any bootloader at all? Use `efibootmgr` to create a boot entry that will get you straight into the kernel with whichever options you want.
This is too hardcore for a simple toot so please check Arch and Gentoo's wikis:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB#Using_UEFI_directly
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Efibootmgr#Creating_a_boot_entry
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Small Void #lifehack: clean your kernels, just keep the newest one
sudo vkpurge rm `vkpurge list | sed -n '$!p'`
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w8 it doesn't work completely fine...
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Hey there, welcome to our first #lifeHack ever on a Mastodon May (First)! :woah:
While the guys at Mozilla are still figuring out how to Firefox, the best way to use them is to combine two addons: "Temporary Containers" (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/) lets you get a... temporary... container (wow) each time you open a tab, while "Multi-Account Containers" (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) lets you keep logged in where you need to.
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Hey there, welcome to our first #lifeHack ever on a Mastodon May (First)! :woah:
While the guys at Mozilla are still figuring out how to Firefox, the best way to use containers is to combine two addons: "Temporary Containers" (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/) lets you get a... temporary... container (wow) each time you open a tab, while "Multi-Account Containers" (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) lets you keep logged in where you need to.
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Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy surprise! #lifeHack is back, everyone! ikorite :woah:
This one is ffmpeg-related: now that HDR is starting to become more relevant, there's this nice thingie where you can convert it into SDR so it doesn't look like shit on older displays: https://stevens.li/guides/video/converting-hdr-to-sdr-with-ffmpeg/
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And yes, I looked it up because the XZ2 records in 4K HDR and I just can't asdhlashfkljfdhsklfsklfnhkenwkenfksdnbfklsjbzklgjshnzjshrels
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