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What computer life hacks are your most used?

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  • M [email protected]

    To navigate to the previous folder

    cd -

    To reissue the previous command with a prefix. For example:

    cat /root/.ssh/authorized_keys # Will fail without privilege

    sudo !!

    To use the argument of the previous command. For example:

    tac ~/.ssh/authorized_keys # oops, misspelled cat

    cat !$

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    Not sure if you're aware that tac is not a typo but reverse cat, as in, it works like cat but prints the last line first. I use this semi-regularly

    sl, now, that's a typo. Nobody wants a free choo choo

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    • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

      Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

      Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

      Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

      Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

      Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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      Linux. Windows is used for Russian oligarchs.

      Since people are expecting windows shortcut keys, I nominate TAB navigation. Hitting tab will cycle the focus through all the buttons and edit boxes. Shift Tab to go backwards.

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      • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

        Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

        Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

        Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

        Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

        Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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        First thing required on every new keyboard

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        • M [email protected]

          Not sure if this has been said already, but win + m collapses all open windows.

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          Win+D show desktop!

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          • bahnd@lemmy.worldB [email protected]

            Microsoft has never fixed the sticky keys replacement cheese to unlock a PC you have physical access to. Ive done it up to W10, never tested it on W11.

            1. Get a Windows recovery USB.

            2. Boot into the recovery menu and open the command prompt.

            3. Navagate to system32 and make a copy of the cmd.exe file (for a backup)

            4. Copy the sticky_keys.exe and have it overwrite cmd.exe, then reboot.

            5. On the login screen, smash the shift key until the command prompt appears and for some reason (because no user has logged in yet) it has admin permissions, so you can reset local passwords.

            6. Once your logged in as a local admin, copy the backup of cmd.exe back so noone is none the wiser (except the security software that knows you messed with something)

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            I used to use a boot CD with a password eraser. I think the last time I used it was win 7 though

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              My grub boot loader is pretty hacked together at this point. Really should probably do a fresh install at some point. Want to get a 4TB SSD at some point though.

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              I think youre missing the point

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              • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

                Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

                Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

                Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

                Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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                Cutting and pasting a folder is faster than copying and pasting.
                OS just gotta add an inode in first case.

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                • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                  Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

                  Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

                  Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

                  Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

                  Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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                  As a basic Linux user, I have a shell script to do all my updating, upgrading, removing of unneeded packages, etcetera. Under no circumstances is it all that advanced, just a string of simple enough apt and flatpak commands.

                  I also recently figured out that god knows how long ago that I set an alias to run it that's only 3 keyboard clicks instead of 5, saving basically less than a second. So not that useful, but still good to know... until I inevitably forget about it again.

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                    There's a setting in windows that opens snipping tool when print screen is pressed. This allows to select a screen, window or a rectangle. More than that, it also has screen recording functionality. Very good for quick screen grabs with no additional software required.

                    Win+Shift+S is the keyboard shortcut. You can even do screen recordings. I use that shit all the time at work, to send bug reports when the useless fucking software we’re forced to use has a repeatable crash that the dev team can’t replicate with text reports alone.

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                    Best keyboard shortcut I know hahaha

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                      Far from most used, but very handy: ctrl+win+shift+b

                      It restarts the graphic subsystem, which can help recover from situations where game crashes or similar cause visual issues.

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                      That's handy, my computer is struggling to run crusader kings 3 when I start it up sometimes and I have to restart the whole thing. Next time I'll try this.

                      Trying to save to buy a new pc but with a baby on the way most of our money is going to baby stuff at the moment

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                        They tought us on typewriters in the 90s. Wait until you hear about how I changed an ink ribbon, son.

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                        They taught us on ink pens in the 1700s. Wait until you hear about how I etched on slate tablets.

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                          Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

                          While browsing on the web and you want to "open link into a new tab", click using the mouse wheel like it's a regular left or right click.

                          It's great for researching.

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                          You can also middle click on a tab to close it! Also, middle clicking stuff pinned to your taskbar like the file explorer or your browser opens up a new window of it.

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                            As a basic Linux user, I have a shell script to do all my updating, upgrading, removing of unneeded packages, etcetera. Under no circumstances is it all that advanced, just a string of simple enough apt and flatpak commands.

                            I also recently figured out that god knows how long ago that I set an alias to run it that's only 3 keyboard clicks instead of 5, saving basically less than a second. So not that useful, but still good to know... until I inevitably forget about it again.

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                            I've been yum-cronning since 2002. You guys still do it manually?

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                              They tought us on typewriters in the 90s. Wait until you hear about how I changed an ink ribbon, son.

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                              tought

                              taught? Is spell-check your next epiphany?

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                                Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

                                While browsing on the web and you want to "open link into a new tab", click using the mouse wheel like it's a regular left or right click.

                                It's great for researching.

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                                click using the mouse wheel

                                'middle click'

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                                • undefined@lemmy.hogru.chU [email protected]

                                  Set up three WireGuard network interfaces on a VPS then accept traffic from your end devices to route through the three double hop VPN tunnels to a country with better privacy laws. Install an ad and tracking blocking DNS server to block all nefarious hostnames as well as more granular blockers for your browsers.

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                                  What’s the point of the VPS?

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                                    You can also middle click on a tab to close it! Also, middle clicking stuff pinned to your taskbar like the file explorer or your browser opens up a new window of it.

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                                    Wow, this I didn't know! Thanks friend!

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                                    • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                                      Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

                                      Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

                                      Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

                                      Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

                                      Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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                                      I'm a web dev and one "hack" I use all the time is bookmarklets. In Chrome @bookmarks let's you search your bookmarks, so I use this to fire off different scripts to do different things. Most are for debugging and the like. I have my hotkeys setup where ctrl + q puts focus on the omnibar so I can start typing, and then I use @books marks to search for whatever I need. A lot of the bookmarklets just append the current url to some other site like page speed insights or pure.md. I find this saves me a ton of time. Also the duplicate this tab hotkey, I use that all day every day.

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                                        What’s the point of the VPS?

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                                        Mainly to keep my end devices appearing to connect to a VPN in the same country. I usually do that especially when I travel to other countries that seem to block WireGuard leaving their borders.

                                        I suppose if I had fiber at home I’d do it all there but cable internet’s slow 30 Mbps upload speed along with constant power outages make it a no-go.

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                                          I've been yum-cronning since 2002. You guys still do it manually?

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                                          As someone who has only been using Linux for a few years ( >5 ), yeah I do.

                                          Definitely know what cron/cronning is, but I'll definitely have to look up what yum-cronning is.

                                          Edit:

                                          I'm an idiot and correct in my thinking that yum was referring to the yum package management thing, which I don't use on my system. Sounds cool, though. Might look into automating my setup, but it's become such a routine for me to run the script I'm not sure if I could easily switch.

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