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
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
SQL - understanding how to interact with databases will be an incredibly useful skill for whatever rabbit hole you next want to fall down.
I don’t know what I expected… I love the Internet
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
You could get JOSM and become an OpenStreetMap editor. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
Also install gentoo.
One week of keybr.com to improve touch typing skills, which should serve you across all your IT endeavours… Unless you choose to learn gimp and drawing stuff :P
Lilypond. Its music software. Learning it will keep you occupied for at least a week.
Sketching 3D in FreeCAD.
or openscad, if you are more into code
Or the Openscad workbench in FreeCAD if you like both. FOSS is grande.
TIL, thanks
Or MatterControl if you are looking for more of an artistic side rather than the technical specifications.
Mmkay thank you, this is such a great thing to ask.
There’s always software reverse engineering. As bad as it may sound to some people, the US NSA has a github repositroy for a tool known as Ghidra, under Apache 2.0 license, so you can look at the source code and determine whether or not it’s spyware. If it’s actually NSA quality, you know it should be good enough for reverse engineering old software that won’t land you in trouble if found out by the original devs. Last update was 2 months ago.
I tried a little bit but have yet to go very far at all with it since I am an idiot who thinks he’s smarter than he really is.
Though, taking a page from your book, I am interested in looking up rekordbox now.
I don’t have any suggestions, I just want you to know that you’re delightful
Stage lighting controls are extremely fun to learn. DMX, ArtNet, etc. QLC+ is free and open source, there are TON of other ones as well (like controlling big stage lights with a Wii controller so they move like you).
There are simulators, but the prettiest I’ve seen so far is https://github.com/AcChosen/VR-Stage-Lighting. Despite its name, you don’t need vr for it but if you do, you can watch your lightshow as if it was real!
Learn you a Haskell!
