I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.

I’ve already learned:

  • Equations and pivot tables in Excel

  • Vector graphics in Inkscape

  • Music mixing in rekordbox

  • Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN

  • LAMP stack web hosting

  • Streaming & video capture with OBS

  • Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync

Things I’m open to:

  • FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software

  • A high or low learning curve

  • Tools for niche fields that I’d otherwise have no reason to learn

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      1·
      3 days ago

      Over the years I’ve gotten proficient enough in GIMP that I can usually accomplish what I set out to do.

      Inkscape is a foreign language that I have no frame of reference for.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    5 days ago

    SQL - understanding how to interact with databases will be an incredibly useful skill for whatever rabbit hole you next want to fall down.

  • ascendings@fedia.io
    19·
    7 days ago

    I’d say GIMP for photo editing would be a good one to learn. It’s come in handy in a pinch both at home and at work when I’ve needed something done up real quick.

    • Anivia@feddit.org
      11·
      6 days ago

      Real cad software (like Freecad or OpenSCAD if you want FOSS) would be more useful for 3d printing, unless you only plan to print useless plastic figurines

  • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    ssh and scp (secure connection and file transfer)

    grep (the standard command-line search tool)

    sed (Stream EDitor, good for find-replaces once you learn how to use it)

    awk (can operate on text files or command output that’s organized in columns)

    sc (terminal-based spreadsheet)

    trash (safer replacement for rm that moves things to your desktop’s trash directory instead of deleting immediately)

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      6 days ago

      trash is a nice idea, but i guess it’s hard to overcome the muscle memory, i might need to rename rm for it ;)

      btw: does somebody else pronounces awk as awkward?

      • JojoWakaki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        I was thinking that too, I wonder if rm can be aliased to trash. I mean it probably can as I do have alias rm='rm -i'. Wondering if it breaks anything.

        • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          5 days ago

          from what you wrote, i would guess bash is first checking through aliases. anyway that’s something to better read up before trying on a non-test system

  • Digit@lemmy.todayEnglish
    141·
    7 days ago

    some suggestions for your consideration in order of empowerment and learning curve first,

    • AWK
    • ffmpeg (~ & imagemagick ?)
    • bash, zsh, or fish
    • kew (it’s just a really simple nice tui music player, no fuss). (… “Am I the only fun one in Digit’s list here?” – kew)

    n_n

    Some other things that sprang to mind, (generally tending to more gui things, some distro/packagemenent things)… audacity/tenacity, fontforge, gimp, gentoo and portage, bedrocklinux and brl, peertube self hosting, forgefed self hosting, suckless.org’s tools, CRUX or KISS/Carbs, just playing around in stellarium, playing around in pioneer space sim, learning how to evade humanity’s detection as an ai in the game called singularity, ;3

    Oh… Here’s an idea for you… Learn a text editor.

    Think it’s not fun?

    Depends on which text editor you pick, and how much the fun suits you. … Emacs has so many things (including games, like tetris and doctor). Even neovim has some extra things (~ opencode runs on neovim… tho it’s not the same, lol). Or maybe you want something simpler, like nano, mcedit, or fin (I wrote fin, don’t use it, it’s scruffy… and only able to do that from learning some of the things mentioned, and more).

    Yay for learning. Yay for asking for what other fun things to learn. Good post. Good question. … Sorry my answers were not better. Heh. Caught off guard, answered just what first sprang to mind. n_n Doubtless many other more fun things exist.

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    You can do really neat thinga in QGIS – like make your own professional quality maps, make map animated gifs, etc