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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Fedora, now it’s shockingly easy to use.

    I silently replaced windows in the home PC and it took 2 months for the tech illiterate SO to say “WTF, why you put Apple on this PC, I thought you hated them” (put same username/password, same wallpaper, even Microsoft Edge)

    At work I was shocked that I could login directly as user@windows.domain without any extra configuration. Plain vanilla fresh install, typed my active directory account for laughs, it worked 😲

    Also at work I was shocked to see that I could just run the exe of the windows-only accounting software and everything works. I even installed LibreOffice in wine, lol (the accounting software needs soffice.exe for generating spreadsheets). I could even install foxit reader for windows 😂 (sorry, all the Linux PDF readers completely suck when printing, I need previews and booklet and all the extra features)



















  • install tldr and then you have easier commands

    > tldr dd
    
      dd
    
      Convert and copy a file.
      See also: `caligula`.
      More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dd-invocation.html.
    
      - Make a bootable USB drive from an isohybrid file (such as archlinux-xxx.iso) and show the progress:
        sudo dd if=path/to/file.iso of=/dev/usb_drive status=progress
    
      - Clone a drive to another drive with 4 MiB block size and flush writes before the command terminates:
        sudo dd bs=4M conv=fsync if=/dev/source_drive of=/dev/dest_drive
    
      - Generate a file with a specific number of random bytes by using kernel random driver:
        dd bs=100 count=1 if=/dev/urandom of=path/to/random_file
    
      - Benchmark the write performance of a disk:
        dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=path/to/file_1GB
    
      - Create a system backup, save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping if and of), and show the progress:
        sudo dd if=/dev/drive_device of=path/to/file.img status=progress
    
      - Check the progress of an ongoing dd operation (run this command from another shell):
        progress