I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.

I’ve already learned:

  • Equations and pivot tables in Excel

  • Vector graphics in Inkscape

  • Music mixing in rekordbox

  • Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN

  • LAMP stack web hosting

  • Streaming & video capture with OBS

  • Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync

Things I’m open to:

  • FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software

  • A high or low learning curve

  • Tools for niche fields that I’d otherwise have no reason to learn

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      1·
      4 天前

      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.

    • LordCrom@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 天前

      Have you gotten ardour to accept input from guitarx’s USB interface? I hate falling g back to windows stuff for audio recording.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    6 天前

    SQL - understanding how to interact with databases will be an incredibly useful skill for whatever rabbit hole you next want to fall down.

  • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 天前

    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)

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      6 天前

      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?

      • JojoWakaki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 天前

        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.

        • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          6 天前

          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

  • SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml
    6·
    7 天前

    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

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    3·
    7 天前

    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.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    2·
    7 天前

    There are a lot of newer node-based 2D editors (covering both vector and raster) like Graphite and PixiEditor. I haven’t tried these… still wondering if any could easily do stuff like SDF textures or simpler mesh creation (2D workflow, part/face vertex color, maybe 3D via extrude/revolve).

    There’s also Wick Editor for a potential spiritual successor to Flash.

  • Squizzy@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 天前

    How did you go about the excel learning? I find it to be too busy an area to get to parts I want to learn about, mostly pivots and formulas like you