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?
SQL - understanding how to interact with databases will be an incredibly useful skill for whatever rabbit hole you next want to fall down.
Factorio
This is just pure evil
It is tradition (and fun) to start your Blender journey with the Donut Tutorial.
Nice I haven’t done that one! Haven’t even touched blender in years, but I’ve gone through like 3 of his donut tutorials over the past decade or so. They’re really fun and show off how impressive the program is.
Adding to that, since I work at a computer I was never motovated to stay at tbe same place to learn blender so I changed to Nomad Sculpt at the tablet and I love it, I can do it from my couch (or toilet lol). It is a different aproach tho
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
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
I don’t know what I expected… I love the Internet
Learn Krita. David Revoy, artist of Pepper and Carrot, has a ton of great tutorials on using it.
“Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.”
Came here to say the same thing.
Krita is a fantastic image editor.
The ability to script it with Python is a huge plus. I’ve created posters by having it read files from a directory and place images precisely spaced, etc.
Krita is a fantastic name for a KDE drawing app if you speak Swedish. Krita means crayon, and traditionally KDE apps were prefixed with a “k”, also Rita means to draw.
If that’s too basic/open ended, learn to animate in Krita.
Reminds, there’s mypaint too.
Yeah. Krita, mypaint, I neglect, living 99% of the time in gimp.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve had Krita on my tablet for a while now and have been meaning to learn it.
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
Blender and buy a 3D printer afterwards
Real cad software (like Freecad or OpenSCAD if you want FOSS) would be more useful for 3d printing, unless you only plan to print useless plastic figurines
I know you said software, but I would like to suggest a musical instrument. They still require learning a new language and typically provide a huge level of self satisfaction. A cheap keyboard or guitar can provide literally thousands of hours of study.
Take up the synth, but using software on a computer instead of a keyboard. Learn how to write MIDI. 😌
Or get a keyboard (or digital piano), but hook it up to your computer via MIDI and then compose music with it.
It’s a lot nicer using a real keyboard than trying to input notes with a mouse.
I usually used the computer keyboard when I messed with that stuff cuz I couldn’t get a real one back then, just so I could still feel somewhat like playing a piano. 🤣
The world needs more “tracker tunes” :D
You can combine the two with something like Overtone (programmable synth) or similar
You could get JOSM and become an OpenStreetMap editor. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
Also install gentoo.
FreeCAD
Mango jelly on YouTube
Second this. Not because I have experience in it, but because I’m learning it this week so I could have a friend 3D print a part for my car, as I’m deleting some original equipment and now need something that doesn’t exist as a spare part.
I came here to recommend frecad too!
Yes def freecad its really fun to fuck aound in
Emacs
Vi/vim counterpoint. Learning to quit vim will get them very far in life
Learning to quit vim will get them very far in life
How dare you?! q:qwqEscEscEscQ!
Now that is the gift that keeps on giving! I also like the implication that one can “learn” emacs.
And remember when you learn emacs to also learn org-mode!
On NixOS
vi
or vim with
vimtutor
