I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.
I’ve already learned:
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Equations and pivot tables in Excel
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Vector graphics in Inkscape
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Music mixing in rekordbox
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Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN
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LAMP stack web hosting
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Streaming & video capture with OBS
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Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync
Things I’m open to:
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FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software
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A high or low learning curve
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Tools for niche fields that I’d otherwise have no reason to learn
How did you learn inkscape?
Over the years I’ve gotten proficient enough in GIMP that I can usually accomplish what I set out to do.
Inkscape is a foreign language that I have no frame of reference for.
Factorio
This is just pure evil
SQL - understanding how to interact with databases will be an incredibly useful skill for whatever rabbit hole you next want to fall down.
Ardour, it’s a FOSS Digital Audio Workstation
Have you gotten ardour to accept input from guitarx’s USB interface? I hate falling g back to windows stuff for audio recording.
Honestly never had a reason to try, piano and vox
I don’t know what I expected… I love the Internet
FreeCAD
Mango jelly on YouTube
Second this. Not because I have experience in it, but because I’m learning it this week so I could have a friend 3D print a part for my car, as I’m deleting some original equipment and now need something that doesn’t exist as a spare part.
I came here to recommend frecad too!
Yes def freecad its really fun to fuck aound in
vi
or vim with
vimtutor
I’d say GIMP for photo editing would be a good one to learn. It’s come in handy in a pinch both at home and at work when I’ve needed something done up real quick.
Blender and buy a 3D printer afterwards
Real cad software (like Freecad or OpenSCAD if you want FOSS) would be more useful for 3d printing, unless you only plan to print useless plastic figurines
Docker and Docker Compose. Once you know that, you’ll be able to self host almost any FOSS.
Take it one step farther and learn podman and quadlets. It’s like learning docker/compose, but it’s also rootless if you do it from userspace.
Docker can also be run rootless, though not by default.
True, but I personally don’t see the point in adding a bunch of new packages to a system to make it work the way another system does when the migration process is minimal.
Using podman compose, I’ve migrated multiple docker compose to rootless with basically no required refactoring until I made it a quadlet so it would always just run.
Yeah I also switched all my docker containers to podman as well. I wasn’t making any point for using either above the other
I wasn’t making any point for using either above the other
I know, but I AM making a point to use podman over docker because it’s rootless by default and requires less work/admin overhead to implement and maintain.
It’s all well and good that docker can run rootless with a good amount of tweaking and configuration, but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze IMO. I pulled the pin on that once I realized podman was the much better option.
I’ve never understood why Docker doesn’t work like that by default.
Docker was initially only rootful. So I’m assuming for compatibility’s sake they kept the default that way?
ssh and scp (secure connection and file transfer)
grep (the standard command-line search tool)
sed (Stream EDitor, good for find-replaces once you learn how to use it)
awk (can operate on text files or command output that’s organized in columns)
sc (terminal-based spreadsheet)
trash (safer replacement for rm that moves things to your desktop’s trash directory instead of deleting immediately)
trash is a nice idea, but i guess it’s hard to overcome the muscle memory, i might need to rename rm for it ;)
btw: does somebody else pronounces awk as awkward?
I was thinking that too, I wonder if rm can be aliased to trash. I mean it probably can as I do have
alias rm='rm -i'. Wondering if it breaks anything.from what you wrote, i would guess bash is first checking through aliases. anyway that’s something to better read up before trying on a non-test system
some suggestions for your consideration in order of empowerment and learning curve first,
- AWK
- ffmpeg (~ & imagemagick ?)
- bash, zsh, or fish
- kew (it’s just a really simple nice tui music player, no fuss). (… “Am I the only fun one in Digit’s list here?” – kew)
n_n
Some other things that sprang to mind, (generally tending to more gui things, some distro/packagemenent things)… audacity/tenacity, fontforge, gimp, gentoo and portage, bedrocklinux and brl, peertube self hosting, forgefed self hosting, suckless.org’s tools, CRUX or KISS/Carbs, just playing around in stellarium, playing around in pioneer space sim, learning how to evade humanity’s detection as an ai in the game called singularity, ;3
Oh… Here’s an idea for you… Learn a text editor.
Think it’s not fun?
Depends on which text editor you pick, and how much the fun suits you. … Emacs has so many things (including games, like tetris and doctor). Even neovim has some extra things (~ opencode runs on neovim… tho it’s not the same, lol). Or maybe you want something simpler, like nano, mcedit, or fin (I wrote fin, don’t use it, it’s scruffy… and only able to do that from learning some of the things mentioned, and more).
Yay for learning. Yay for asking for what other fun things to learn. Good post. Good question. … Sorry my answers were not better. Heh. Caught off guard, answered just what first sprang to mind. n_n Doubtless many other more fun things exist.
Emacs
Vi/vim counterpoint. Learning to quit vim will get them very far in life
Learning to quit vim will get them very far in life
How dare you?! q:qwqEscEscEscQ!
Now that is the gift that keeps on giving! I also like the implication that one can “learn” emacs.
And remember when you learn emacs to also learn org-mode!
On NixOS
You can do really neat thinga in QGIS – like make your own professional quality maps, make map animated gifs, etc
Godot. Start with an idle game, move onto more. Just don’t make a horror game, way too many of those and a lot of them are bad.
I want to use Godot to make a King’s Field-like game, but the time needed for that is something I just don’t have right now! Maybe one day! T-T
Or a rogelike/light! Really hard as starter project
I made a roguelike for a game jam a few months ago, it taught me a lot!
I’d been making mostly text-based/UI-based stuff before, so it was my first “real-time” and “3D” game.
Also, I concur: Godot is awesome to work with :)
