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Novocirab@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Expanding storage on simple home serverEnglish1·1 month agoIf you don’t yet have a USB adapter for using NVMe SSDs over USB-3 ports, I’d suggest to buy such a thing first, since they not just make for a simple yet (decently) fast storage expansion solution, but are very useful in all sorts of situations.
A good start is to install
tldr
. You use it likeman
, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.As for man pages themselves (which I often find overwhelming, too), if you’re not doing that already, you can pipe it into
grep
to extract just those lines that contain your search string:man ps | grep user # or for two lines of context above and below each match: man ps | grep user -C 2
Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven’t use Fish yet, but it’s said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.
PS: I see no good reason why anyone should downvote this question.
Edit (June 23): As it so happens, just today I’ve stumbled into the O’Reilly book “Classic Shell Scripting” by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). What can I say – its age notwithstanding, it’s apparently an extremely good book for understanding things and learning how to solve real problems. (It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one’s just starting out, the book “Learning the Unix Operating System” may be better.)
Novocirab@feddit.orgto memes@lemmy.world•Memes are usually about humor, but sometimes about hope0·5 months agoControl over Rupert Murdoch’s media empire will probably pass to four of his children, with equal voting rights for all of them. Only one of them (Lachlan) is as right-wing as he is. The other three are comparatively liberal, e.g. they consider man-made climate change a threat. Long-form story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/rupert-murdoch-family-succession-james-murdoch/681675/
I think the general term for this is “domain sniping” or “catching”. From this, I also found this paid service, catches.io; can’t tell if it or dropcatch is better. They both only charge you when they are successful in catching the domain for you, which is good.
In general, I second the notion that one probably can’t get around paying for a professional, paid service, since one is up against professionalized scoopers (godaddy and the like), who have put a lot of optimization (down to the placing of their servers) into trying to get an edge over legitimate buyers and competing scoopers.