Gentoo is better than any other distribution

-z might be pointless since you’re transferring files locally.

https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool ?

There’s nothing inherently wrong with OpenVPN, so if you’re happy with it, just stay with it.

In case you decide to look for alternatives, I would probably go with elastic/filebeat/grafana, a fairly standard log monitoring suite. Not saying it’s better or worse than Victoria Logs, which i have no experience with.

I think it depends a lot on what kind of application you’re thinking of. Here are some examples of tools that I particularly remember for having nice CLI interfaces, but they are all slightly different in terms of the number of operations/entities they support.

Single operation, a lot of different types of data: httpie

httpie is a CLI HTTP client. It allows to generate fairly complex requests, choose which diagnostic information you want to see, etc.

Examples:

$ https httpie.io/hello
$ http PUT pie.dev/put X-API-Token:123 name=John
$ http -v pie.dev/get

Several operations, a lot of parameters: Bazel

Bazel is a build system. There are only a handful of operations you typically perform (build, run, test, query), but they all follow the same pattern.

Examples:

$ bazel build //app
$ bazel --quiet build //app -c opt
$ bazel --quiet run //app -c opt -- --port=1234

Multiple entites, multiple operations: LVM

I really liked the interface of Linux Volume Manager tools. They consist of multiple commands that follow the same pattern, and use the same flags for options.

Examples:

# vgcreate -n vg_name
# vgs
# pvcreate /dev/sda
# vgextend vg_name /dev/sda
# lvcreate vg_name -n lv_name -L5G
# lvresize vg_name/lv_name -L+1G
# lvs

Wanted to mention jj too. It follows a fairly standard pattern of ‘<command> <noun> <verb>’, e.g. ‘jj bookmark create’, allows to abbreviate unambiguous commands (e.g. ‘jj b c’), has a lot of QoL features (such as highlighting unique prefixes of change IDs in the output). Really a lot of thought went into CLI design specifically it seems.

Go to Preferences -> Audio -> Replay Gain mode and set it to “Album” (if you’re listening to whole albums) or “Track” (if you’re mixing it up). This will let VLC read the ReplayGain[1] tags in your files and adjust playback volume accordingly. Chances are high that a lot of your collection already has these tags, and you won’t have to do anything else. If some of your files don’t have these tags, just run a tool (https://github.com/complexlogic/rsgain for example) to generate them.

Nice! I used to do something like this, which avoids xargs altogether:

cat urls.txt | while read url; do echo download $url; done

What features do you need? Just render a string with a given font and that’s it? Or something more advanced?

One is probably link local the other is global, that’s pretty normal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Address_Scopes

Ah okay, it’s a user unit then. Try the following:

$ systemctl --user enable ydotoold
$ systemctl --user start ydotoold

Sadly very typical for science journalists.

It looks like you’re missing the ydotool.service unit file in the package. Can you check by running dpkg -L ydotool-custom (the name of the package you chose in step 3.4)?

Unit files are how services are defined in most Linux-based desktop systems, similar to services in Windows.

can you explain the joke, i work at cloudflare

I just press M-.

fzf is great for quickly finding files e.g. in large code repositories.

tcpdump can help diagnose network issues.

tmux is based

Also if you make a typo you can quickly fix it with ^, e.g.

ls /var/logs/apache

^logs^log

Number one will forever and ever be strace