It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember. The next time you're forced to disarm a nuclear weapon without consulting Google, you may run: cheat tar and quickly get some examples to jog your memory.

The project gives a couple of options to install it, but I was able to just click to install from AUR and no setup was needed at all. I see there is also a Snap package for those who use Snap.

See https://github.com/cheat/cheat

#technology #opensource #Linux #cheatsheet

Remember the good old days of Walkmans, iPods, and CD players? Or even before that, when vinyl records were played on turntables? Now that was true lossless audio. It's essentially audio that's presented in its purest form, exactly as the artist intended for it to be heard. A lot of those dedicated music players, however, have become obsolete now as people started turning to smartphones and music streaming services to listen to music. Modern-day solutions offer a convenient way to access huge libraries of music from anywhere at any given time. But this added convenience, as you'd expect, affect the overall quality of the music.

Most of the music we listen to these days is heavily compressed to save space on our devices or consume less mobile data while streaming. This compression can significantly degrade the audio quality. If you wish to listen to music in its highest quality, just the way artist intended, lossless audio is the answer. But what is lossless audio anyway? Is it significantly superior to MP3 and other compressed audio formats?

See https://www.xda-developers.com/lossless-audio/

#technology #streaming #music #audio

To use anything more efficiently, it always helps to understand first what it can actually do, and then to understand how to use it. This linked article helps explain both of those concepts.

The article also provides a few examples of how you can use Google Bard. For example, you can use Bard to:

• Summarize articles or blog posts
• Provide catchy headlines or titles
• Write emails or letters
• Translate languages
• Generate creative content, such as poems, programming code, or scripts
• Answer your questions about a variety of topics
• Provide activities or itineraries for places you're travelling to
• Proofreading
• Data analysis of paragraphs of text

See https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-use-google-bard/

#technology #AI #GoogleBard

It is a Java-based app that runs on Windows, Linux and macOS that provides an amazing amount of rich text formatting options for sticky notes, auto-roll up notes, protection and encryption of notes, alarms, colours, attaching images or files, and much more. Although you could use it for organising masses of notes into groups and subgroups, it really shines at having quick reference notes, checklists, to-do list and reminders readily available on your desktop.

Watch https://youtu.be/s1M2A6dPSsM

#technology #GloboNote #opensource #stickynotes

This was an interesting read, and even though I'm still on Manjaro Linux, I see now it is much closer to Arch than Manjaro is.

It's a good point being made that Manjaro's slight delaying of their package updates, can sometimes break dependencies when those dependencies are updated ahead of the actual Manjaro packages.

In fact, with EndeavourOS being so much closer to Arch, it is actually overall more bleeding edge on updates than Manjaro, so for those wanting just a friendlier GUI Arch itself, this may be the one to go for. On DistroWatch I see EndeavourOS listed as number 2 (with Debian-based MX Linux as number 1 across the board).

See https://www.howtogeek.com/896410/why-i-hopped-from-manjaro-linux-to-endeavouros/

#technology #opensource #Linux

Quite a few Reddit app developers have committed to producing apps for Lemmy, and this seems to be one of the first ready for use. Mobile apps may well give Lemmy a better look-and-feel for many.

Only download for many is that it requires the build process to be run before using it. I'd hope they can at least publish the APK on the F-Droid store for Android.

See https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff

#technology #Liftoff #Lemmy #opensource #Reddit

As always How-To Geek really comes up with some excellent practical advice on what to really consider when choosing RAM modules.

There is nothing wrong with heatsinks, but don't let that be your deciding factor unless you're going to seriously overclock your machine.

See https://www.howtogeek.com/896250/how-to-choose-the-best-ram-for-your-pc/

#technology #RAM

No, it's not an April Fools' Joke (which is what I thought at first reading). “Cosmic-ray muons fall equally across the Earth and always travel at the same speed regardless of what matter they traverse, penetrating even kilometres of rock,” said researcher Hiroyuki Tanaka.

It certainly bypasses any attempts to spoof it or jam it, and it has way better penetration than GPS, but it due to its nature, accuracy is only around 2 m to 25 m right now.

See https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/navigation-system

#technology #navigation

If you’re looking for a way to stream or watch movies and TV shows, there’s a good choice you’re trying to pick between Kodi and Plex. Though both are solid choices, there are some notable differences that can help you decide between them.

Plex is a media server solution that runs in one location and is accessed using client apps, a web interface, or DLNA.

By comparison, Kodi is designed to run on your primary media centre computer or device but also includes emulators, games, and a richer suite of add-ons that connect to all sorts of 3rd party services.

See https://www.howtogeek.com/887832/kodi-vs-plex/

#technology #Plex #Kodi #streaming #entertainment