so fun fact inhaling yummy iron dust is not very BASED. and i mean i could wear a respirator, but the whole thing is even with wearing some safety's and a respirator i still got iron dust in my eyes, and have had about 4 eye infections. so last weekend i decided to fix that, i took a Hepa filter and laser cut a mount for a delta server fan and made 2 rings which hold the filter via caughter pins, i also had a mic arm that i lost the end. It sucks up all the iron dust from polishing. And if your wondering i really have only been at this die shop for a few months (basically 1 month after i started this form.) and Ive had a lot of challenges with working at this establishment, at least job wise. the people that i work with are really nice and have never had any problems. but the jobs are shitty to say the least and pay is not that good. im technically a maintenance worker, but i end up doing all the "shitty jobs" and i really dont get paid that much, im part time and get paid $14.60 hourly which a walmart worker gets paid $14 from where i live. and i really have a passion for machining, my senior year i took a machining class, and i was hooked. all i really do is cut, size and polish dies and other junk like running the cnc (which i am a legit a button pusher) i know a little gcode like g73 is a peck drill can cycle. but i dont get to program or anything, i just take parts of of the vice and put new ones in and press cycle start the shitty part is that for a lot of local shop you needed to know how to run a CNC. and sadly the class i took was a 2 year course and the second year was learning CNC, so i never got to. and that left me to finding a job that i could be hired and hopefully work my way up. at this point i don't think im ever going to get a promotion, and am currently searching for a new job. i know this is rather personal, but what do you guys think?
ive been on the fence about leaving, and some of you may be wondering why i made the filter, and its because its kinda the whole fuck around and find out thats at my work place. if a worker asks for something like new ppe, the boss dislikes you and you basically get punished in a way, shittier jobs, less hours, denied days off.

ok, so i have recently took the plunge into self hosting with my raspberry pi. i got an SMB share Running with anonimus permissions (so anybody on the network can access the drive) and i install CUPS and the necessary driver for my Epson ET-2800 (btw download it via apt, i spent 4 days trying to get it to work from Epson website, which BTW was useless because it had x86 driver and arm v6 and my pi 400 is arm v7.) anyway i digress, so the main problem and i cant find any documentation (at least some i can understand) is that i add my printer via gnome "printer settings" and it add it and shows up fine. but when i go to print it cancels job? however i know the driver and cups works alteast of the pi server, if i ssh into it. and run "lp testdoc.txt" (which is a text file i made to check if im loosing my marbles) and it prints without a hitch. i have also done "sudo usermod -aG lpadmin root" so i believe it has something to do with cups permissions. any help would be very appreciated.

my cups config file

LogLevel warn PageLogFormat MaxLogSize 0

Allow remote access

Port 631 Listen /run/cups/cups.sock Browsing On BrowseLocalProtocols dnssd DefaultAuthType Basic WebInterface Yes

Allow remote access...

Order allow,deny Allow all

AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM

AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM

JobPrivateAccess default JobPrivateValues default SubscriptionPrivateAccess default SubscriptionPrivateValues default

Order deny,allow


Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow

Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow all

AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


Order deny,allow

JobPrivateAccess default JobPrivateValues default SubscriptionPrivateAccess default SubscriptionPrivateValues default

AuthType Default
Order deny,allow


AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


Order deny,allow

JobPrivateAccess default JobPrivateValues default SubscriptionPrivateAccess default SubscriptionPrivateValues default

AuthType Negotiate
Order deny,allow


AuthType Negotiate
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


AuthType Negotiate
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow


Order deny,allow

From left to right and reasons why I carry it.

[Nixon Regulus] it has a timer, (which is really great for cycle times on the mill and you gotta use the can) 2 chronographs, 3 alarms and most importantly tells the time. The reason why I chose this watch is that I wanted a simple watch with a few feature and ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want a smartwatch because of privacy and how useless they are without a phone connected, I originally thought about buying a Casio gshock but wasn’t thrilled at how it looked, although I have heard some pretty crazy stories of them surviving.

[USB Toolkit] USB-C to USB-C cable (quick charging and data in a pinch)

USB-C to Lightning (for that one friend that insists on owning an iPhone)

USB-C to Micro (for them crusty old devices)

USB-C to A (for when USB c isn’t available)

USB-C male to USB-A Female (for when you need to plug something USB-C into USB A)

USB-C to micro SD card (for when you need to save a file or need a Linux live environment)

[Wallet] it was a gift, have no idea what brand it is, It’s made out of canvas and has a neat little pocket to hold my USB-C stuff.

[Leatherman skeletool] I have always like having a screwdriver and pliers multitool, I in the past carried a Gerber center drive and loved it. Except for how bulky and heavy it was, it also did not fit in my watch pocket/coin pocket. I also have used the Gerber Dime, which I really liked because of how pocketable it was. However, I used the pliers on it and it broke :/. So I settled on a Leatherman Skeletool, I don’t like it has proprietary bits, but it’s really lightweight and fits perfect in my coin pocket. The main reason I like having a pair of pliers in my pocket is at my job I do a lot of cutoffs and there are hot metal chips that make the pliers very useful when u need to move them

[Atom Tech Power Bank] it has 1 USB-C (in and out) 1 USB A port it’s 3000mAh which isn’t that big but I only use it for a hop up on charge as I rarely use my phone and my earbuds have big batteries

[extra mentions] I also have a pair of Sony xm3’s i daily for music and junk, and they work pretty well, and sound great. They are kinda big case and earbud wise, however I’m fine with some chunk.

So, last week before Christmas (also late merry Christmas) I was running this super neat and terrifying Hydraulic press. I asked are resident machinist about it, and he told me "it was a military surplus Hydraulic press, it was originally made for WW2 and crimped bullet casings". I can't show a photo of it because it's in are store room with lots of "trade secret" stuff. But ill explain it with a very poorly drawn version

It was really neat to learn about the history of this neat machine. And the challenges we're currently dealing with. Such as it runs for 20 mins then shuts off the one smart other maintenance guy said it was the pump going bad and we're probably going to have to replace it. The press is kinda scary though, the punches blow apart if you load something wrong (which is my fault) and hearing it start to move down the punch is quite scary as I have seen punches explode, and metal shards fly everywhere. But it was kinda fun in the scary kinda way!

[Browsers]

Browsh

old school looking terminal web browser with image support that runs on a modified version of Firefox https://www.brow.sh/

Lynx

Terminal web browser (can configure to use MPV or YouTube-dl for videos) https://lynx.browser.org/

Links

Terminal based web browser a lot like lynx http://links.twibright.com/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Buck@lemmy.world

Links2

Links 2 the electric boogaloo, it is written in C with ncurses https://github.com/spartrekus/links2

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Siegfried@lemmy.world

[System Monitoring]

uptimed

System uptime record daemon that keeps track of your highest uptimes https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

TTYload

color-coded graph of load averages over time http://zhar.net/projects/shell/terminal-colors

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

Bottom

shows CPU cores, CPU usage, Memory usage, Disks, Disk usage, Processes, Network, Temperature. https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

gdu

Pretty fast disk usage analyzer written in Go.

Gdu is intended primarily for SSD disks where it can fully utilize parallel processing. However HDDs work as well, but the performance gain is not so huge.

https://github.com/dundee/gdu

suggested by @stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi

neofetch

display your *NIX and system info with one command! https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

nvtop

Shows Program usage, GPU usage, GPU memory, Clock speeds, Power, Temperature, https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop

Htop

generic terminal system monitor and is very basic Shows CPU core util, Memory, Swap, Uptime, Load avrage, Tasks https://htop.dev/

duf

Shows disks space, Mounted point, File system type, Size https://github.com/muesli/duf

Pydf

Check disk space usage with colored output https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/pydf-check-disk-space-usage-with-colored-output/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/easeKItMAn@lemmy.world

Glacees

A lot like Htop or top but looks different and is cross platform. https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

Btop

Btop is like Htop but with customizability cranked to 11, it shows by default, Memory load, Available Memory, Cached Memory, Free Memory, Network interface, Network Download, Network Upload, IP address, Running Programs, How much memory the Programs are using as well as CPU, CPU cores, CPU util, CPU Temperature, and the time. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/floofloof@lemmy.ca

[Text Editors and file location]

yq

a lightweight and portable command-line YAML, JSON and XML processor. https://github.com/mikefarah/yq suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/dotslashme@infosec.pub

fd

Superfast file finder Via cmd line. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Autojump

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. https://github.com/wting/autojump

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/chasingtheflow@lemmy.world

fzf

Fuzzy command line finder https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

mcfly

quickly look through your shell history, to find that one command you're too lazy to type again (I do it as well LMAO) https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

Atuin

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server. (its like mcfly but better objectively)

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi

TLDR

a community driven easy man page finder. (life saver) https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

Nano

The default text editor, not stupid complicated not. not very configurable but does the job https://www.nano-editor.org/

Micro

it's like Nano but is static and has no dependency as well as plugin support. https://micro-editor.github.io/

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/jelloeater85@lemmy.world

Helix

It's a post-modern text editor that is similar to VIM or Neovim the main difference is it runs on Rust meaning No JavaScript, Electron or Vim Script and is highly customizable!

https://helix-editor.com/ Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ultra@feddit.ro

Emacs

Behold the Church of Emacs, its like nano and vim had a child. its configurable and somewhat simple https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Kakoune

A modal terminal text editor based on Vi. Kakoune is based on selection before action and is committed to the unix Philosophy https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/RAM@discuss.tchncs.de

Bim

Bim aims to be lightweight and featureful with no external* dependencies, providing a modern editing experience in a lightweight, extensible package and is based on VIM https://github.com/klange/bim

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Vim

The master-race of text editors that has a learning curve but is very configurable as well as plugins, to the point so people argue why need anything other than VIM https://www.vim.org/

Neovim

it's like vim and Oh my ZSH had a child, its got a lot of configurability and is ment to be more user-friendly https://neovim.io/

[Command utilities]

Tmux

its a CLI window, manager with a lot of bits and bobs. its actually a terminal multiplexer which is a fancy word i don't understand :D Also the keybindings are hard to remember and would highly recommend https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

tmate

its a fork of tmux that lets your share your terminal over LAN or the internet https://tmate.io/ Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

Terminal colors

It automatically detects 8, 16, 88, 256 color capabilities (via ncurses)
and displays the appropriate color charts.

http://zhar.net/projects/shell/terminal-colors suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

byobu

its alot like tmux with added features https://www.byobu.org/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Geert@lemmy.world

zellij

Alot like Tmux and has plugin support https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

jq

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor akin to sed,awk,grep, and friends for JSON data. It's written in portable C and has zero runtime dependencies, allowing you to easily slice, filter, map, and transform structured data. https://github.com/jqlang/jq suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

zoxide

faster/easier cd lets you quickly jump to places in your filesystem. E.g. z pic will put you in ~/Pictures. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/flamingos@feddit.uk

ncdu

shows how much disk space is used by each directory, can also explore subdirectories and delete files suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Hexagon@feddit.it

neomutt

email via cli! https://neomutt.org/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/gaael@lemmy.world

tig

interactive terminal UI for git with lots of functionality https://github.com/jonas/tig

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Hexagon@feddit.it

pass

the standard Unix password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

Starship

The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! (its lets you customize your shell) https://github.com/starship/starship suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

Lazygit

Terminal UI for git https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

K9S

Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! https://k9scli.io/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/dotslashme@infosec.pub

Lazydocker

Terminal ui for docker, Shows CPU and memory, and what's running and where its pulled from. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

RM-improved/RIP

Use RM but everything goes to /tmp folder https://github.com/nivekuil/rip

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

Trashy

fast and light weight RM that moves items to trash folder and has colorized outputs like FD. https://github.com/oberblastmeister/trashy

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi

tealdear

tldr but in rust (tldr lets your easily find manpages/examples and usage for terminal command) https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/ptrckstr@lemmy.world

Navi

navi allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands. Suggested values for arguments are dynamically displayed in a list. https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi

Cheat

this program allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. https://github.com/cheat/cheat suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id

gomi

its RM except has a trash can so you don't permitly delete something by accident
https://github.com/babarot/gomi suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id

broot

a different than ranger/lf approach to navigating folders https://github.com/Canop/broot suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id

mdr

a markdown viewer https://github.com/michaelmure/mdr suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id

eza

modern ls, with cool features like file icons https://github.com/eza-community/eza suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id

Rtorrent

a terminal based torrent client https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/gunpachi@lemmings.world

ouch

It's a CLI tool for compressing and decompressing for various formats. such as .tar .zip 7z .gz .xz .lzma .bz .bz2 .lz4 .sz .zst .rar https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com

bat

modern cat, with features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc https://github.com/sharkdp/bat suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id

thefuck

hey you!, yeah you I DIDNT TYPE THAT COMMAND WRONG! with thefuck it fixes when you type a prevoius command wrong https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/tourist@lemmy.world

[Shells]

Nushell

it is a new type of shell that has some really cool features such as more detailed error messages and displays licenses via HTTP get, git or curl As well as a more clean UI for ls. https://www.nushell.sh/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/callyral@pawb.social

Bash

its the default and lots of programs use it, https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

ble.sh

Bash Line Editor, bash Shell with a few tweaks https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.org

Mosh

Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. (sadly there is no pit) https://mosh.org/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Bitflip@lemmy.ml

DASH

a POSIX-compliant /bin/sh that is fast and simple http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/callyral@pawb.social

Fish

its like bash but has auto correct for typing https://fishshell.com/

Zsh

its like vim for a shell, it has lots of bells and whistles and is very customizable. https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH

[File Browsers]

Midnight Commander

Midnight commander is a file Browser that has 2 panes where you can do basic file manager stuff such as Copy, Pasting, moving files, and Deleting all Via Terminal!

https://midnight-commander.org/

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/logir@feddit.it

Fm.awk

File manager written in awk https://github.com/huijunchen9260/fm.awk/ Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

lmf

st File Manager is a powerful file manager for the UNIX console. It has a curses interface and it's written in Python v3.4+. https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/

Rover

Rover is a small file browser that aims to be simple, fast and portable. https://lecram.github.io/p/rover/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

LF

lf (as in "list files") is a terminal file manager written in Go with a heavy inspiration from ranger file manager. https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/callyral@pawb.social

Ranger

Alot like Midnight Commander but running on VIM, and just like VIM it is highly customizable
https://github.com/ranger/ranger

----added note ranger should be installed via git most distros have 4+ older versions and lots of bugs

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/logir@feddit.it

nnn

nnn (n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's tiny, nearly 0-config and incredibly fast. https://github.com/jarun/nnn suggest by https://sh.itjust.works/u/gunpachi@lemmings.world

[Fun/games]

lolcat

make your terminal rainbow https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/GentooIsBased@lemmy.ml

Cowsay

make a cow say something in Terminal! https://github.com/piuccio/cowsay

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/bizdelnick@lemmy.ml

Bastet

Tetris clone via terminal https://github.com/fph/bastet/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/pastaPersona@lemmy.world

Cmatrix

make your terminal look like your mr.hacker man https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/tourist@lemmy.world

spotify-tui

Spotify CLI frontend (Spotify via terminal) https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/tourist@lemmy.world

cacademo

plays a bunch of neat ASCII animations https://linux.die.net/man/1/cacademo

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/tourist@lemmy.world

figlet

ASCII text art. http://www.figlet.org/

toilet

turn text into ASCII art. http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet

Yewtube

a cli youtube piped client, stream, download and play audio from YouTube piped. https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

Cmus

cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. https://cmus.github.io/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Siegfried@lemmy.world

cbonsai

Little ASCII art bonsai tree that can be animated with the -l flag https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/tourist@lemmy.world

tty-clock

a digital clock via your terminal! https://github.com/xorg62/tty-clock

I would love to add more useful and cool programs to this list! Feel free to leave suggestions to add! I really want to make this post a really good place to find cool new programs

I would love to add more useful and cool programs to this list! Feel free to leave suggestions to add! I really want to make this post a really good place to find cool new programs

[messagers]

Irssi Irssi is completely themeable IRC client, aswell as easy to write protocol modules in C. https://irssi.org/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/dotslashme@infosec.pub

links2

people of Facebook give me a brain aneurysm.

https://strawpoll.com/kogjkMNj1Z6

I am rather interested in what brands of tools everybody uses in there shop. ive seen lots of shops use mitutoyo but my shop uses just as much Fowler as mitutoyo and how does that compare to other shops. if i didn't include your brand please leave a comment.

So this week at my workplace, Mr. Boss man wanted me to recycle spools. of unused/unwanted wire. Also, I kid, I really do like my boss and my workplace anyway the slight problem is that the spools are made of steel and the wire is aluminum. so I had to figure out a way to get the wire off. The original plan was to use a hacksaw and cut through the end of the spool. However, as I know from last week of doing precisely that with smaller spools. IT SUCKS DONKEY BALLS, my wrists were roached by the weekend. So I figured that the spool had a metal rod that was crushed inside to hold it together, as well as the heads of the spool had bent over tabs. Which my co-worker had the idea of using a chisel, to break off the tabs then I used ye-old South Bend to drill a hole into the taper and bust off the side of the spool. Video of turning down inside, https://files.catbox.moe/n6t3el.mp4

Sorry if this isnt exactly perfect topic for this community. But i bought a t440p because of libreboot, and am waiting for it to come in the mail. Im very excited and have watched a few videos about it. I purely bought it because of the privacy that can be had

So i have my main system, i have been running NixOS on for over a year. It has been a pleasure to daily drive. And ive recently been playing with gentoo and funtoo. And althought alot of information, which is somewhat overwhelming but is slowly growing on me and making me appreatate linux as a whole. So i was wondring what other software users run, and what hardware they run it on. Ive also been looking into replacing my lenovo W540 because the Nvidia K110m is royal pain and kills my battery life. Ive been looking at lenovos t480, t480s t440p. And cant decide, i really would like at least 4 cores, good linux support and long battery life aswell as repairablility. The laptop is going to mostly be a web browsing machine aswell as trying out gentoo and new distros. If you have any suggestions on a laptop id very be much grateful.

Cheers,

for legal reason this is a joke, dont commit crimes, obey the geniva convention. also i want to add, that you matter. ive recently had chats with friends about there mental heath, and please take care of yourself.