Command-Line

When I create backups of folders, I usually tend to use tar in combination with either gzip or xz – this post shows why I should probably use zstd instead. The thumbnail was taken from iconfinder.com and is shared via CC BY-ND 3.0 license.

Since I moved from iOS to Android I had to look for another App to test a small Winlink setup. The thumbnail was created with Google AI (Imagen 3).

Summarized how I finally got LibreTranslate installed on my Archlinux based local mastodon test-instance. I am not affiliated with LibreTranslate – this post reflects my own use case. The thumbnail is a trademark of LibreTranslate.

Another quick’n’dirty note on how I finally enhanced the diskspace of my local mastodon test-instance placed as a virtual machine on my Unraid server. The thumbnail was created with Google AI (Imagen 3).

A quick note on how I got multiple PDF files combined into one single one on a linux command line. The thumbnail was created with Google AI (Imagen 3).

If you are like me and use many different passwords you may come to that point when you can’t think of a password for a specific service (or (zip)file). This is how I recover most of them. The thumbnail was taken from jaydeep_.

I am subscribed to a few mailing lists and I stumbled across a big video file in one of them recently. Here is a small command-line command using ffmpeg that cut its filesize in half.

Another simple and short snippet for rtl_433 on Linux (and probably FreeBSD).