save your precious time with command line aliases
If you don’t often use the terminal, but you find yourself having to type the same commands over and over, here’s a tip for you: create aliases. What’s an alias? It’s a shortcut that will save you time.
A fun, free, open source and cross platform 3D racing game
SuperTuxKart is a cross-platform, free and open-source kart racing game. The gameplay is similar to that of the Mario Kart series, but also has distinct elements, such as collecting and using cans of Nitro. It features mascots of various open-source projects.
You can play in Story mode where you must face the evil Nolok, and defeat him in order to make the Mascot Kingdom safe once again! You can race by yourself against the computer, compete in several Grand Prix cups, or try to beat your fastest time in Time Trial mode. You can also race or battle with up to eight friends on a single computer, play on a local network or play online with other players all over the world.
Download SuperTuxKart for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android here. iOS users can try SuperTuxKart beta via Apple TestFlight.
Plasma Bigscreen is the free open-source user interface experience for “dumb” TVs
Smart TVs are everywhere these days. Most of them are based on Android and they collect a whole bunch of data from you. Some of them are even spying on you. Vizio was busted for using 11 million TVs to spy on its customers.
So what to do? You can:
1. If you already own a smart TV ( or don’t want to bother with option #2 ), consider using Pi-Hole and avoid smart TV with incorporated webcams and mics or remote with incporporated mics.
2. Take a look at KDE’s Plasma Bigscreen project.
Joplin adds experimental WYSIWYG editor
Joplin is a free, open source, cross platform ( Linux, macOS, Windows, Android and iOS ), end-to-end encrypted note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities. The notes are searchable, can be tagged and images or other resources can be attached to them. The notes can be synchronised with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive or any WebDAV server.
Over the weekend Joplin was updated to add a new experimental WYSIWYG editor. However, the keyword here is “experimental” and the devs warn us not to use it for important notes as we may lose the content of the note, or it might get corrupted.
Other changes:
Here’s classic tile-matching puzzle video game for Linux and macOS users: Tetris.
You can have a lot of fun in the terminal, including gaming. Here’s classic tile-matching puzzle video game for Linux and macOS users: Tetris.
Install:
brew install samtay/tui/tetrisyay -S tetris-terminal-gitsudo snap install tetris-thefenriswolf
Usage:
Once installed start the game with tetris.
Available options:
-h,--help Show this help text
-n,--no-preview Don't show preview cell
-a,--ascii-only Use '[]' as hard drop preview cell
-p,--preview-chars CHARS Customize two character preview cell (default: ◤◢)
-l,--level LEVEL Specify level (unspecified results in prompt)
--high-score Print high score and exit