elmicha

You said you/I/everyone can use multiple shells, I said: no, I can’t, at least not on all the machines that I have to use.

Some people work on machines where they are not allowed to install anything.

There’s jc (CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries).

Landliebe

I didn’t know that, thanks for pointing it out!

If you’re not allergic to Amazon, a FireTV stick might be enough, at least for Jellyfin, Youtube/Netflix etc. (not sure about streaming from the browser).

They could buy a chip card.

I’m almost sure that ./ is the directory of the compose.yaml.

Normally I just run docker compose up -d in the project directory, but I could run docker compose up -d -f /somewhere/compose.yaml from another directory, and then the ./ would be /somewhere, and not the directory where I started the command.

There are also some SAT receivers that run Linux, see e.g. https://www.opena.tv/app.php/atv_images

I use ctrl-r.

What happens if you put “police your_city” in your favorite search engine? I tried it with my current city and the village where I grew up, and both led me to the phone number in reasonable time.

The Raspberry Pi Zero in USB gadget mode can be used for GPIO. If you don’t want to setup gadget mode, get Pi Zero W.

Does it have more than one video output? If yes, you could try the other one.

Also there’s a timeout setting in the same file.

You can update and it won’t break anything, because Intel microcode won’t be loaded into AMD CPUs. If you run apt show intel-microcode it tells you that there is a amd64-microcode package as well. If it is not already installed, you can install it, and then try to remove intel-microcode. If it doesn’t want to remove anything else (e.g. the kernel), you can remove it. If not, just leave it installed.

You could plug in a power meter with wifi and look what power is used.

You could use a babyphone or a camera (e.g. an old phone).

I’m not sure if an Alexa (Echo Dot or so) would react on the little tune of your washer, but it hears the standard annoying beeps of my washer.

Or just use completion: press tab once or twice after the ssh command (and a space). If that doesn’t work, install the bash-completion package.

We could use Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert like in the last three decades, but some of these keyboards apparently forgot about the Insert key.

That reminds me: when I bought an MSI monitor (15" without touch) it also came with one USB-C to USB-C cable. All my other USB-C cables did not work for video.