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KiCad takes around 5 minutes to learn and is some of the best software for designing schematics and PCBs.
Falstad is great for when you need simulations of schematics and don't want the headache of trying to use KiCad's built in simulation tools.
Both are FOSS.
wow rekordbox looks nice! I've used Mixxx up til now.
One killer feature might make me switch: I see rekordbox allows mixing of spotify or apple music songs: do they also support navidrome? That would blow me away!
about the topic: what about home assistant? That should prove an adequate rabbit hole for you :)
Lilypond. Its music software. Learning it will keep you occupied for at least a week.
One week of keybr.com to improve touch typing skills, which should serve you across all your IT endeavours... Unless you choose to learn gimp and drawing stuff :P
Slackware- Wait you said fun, nvm
Aseprite (you gotta compile it yourself if you wanna it free tho)
I learned a decent bit about how biometric authentication works (or at least this specific implementation) by installing, setting up, and tweaking settings for Biopass. I also learned about how when you do first login using this method, it can fail to unlock keyrings because the password authentication has been bypassed so no password has been provided to unlock the keyring. It includes anti-spoofing local AI models, and the dev plans to have the option for the user to download and use any model for anti-spoofing/recognition. Interesting stuff.
CRRCSim (RC plane simulator)
Learn how to slope-soar a glider.
Best with the photo mountain scenery added in.
In many distro repositories too.
I recommend learning dc if you don't already know it, and either Octave or Python.
I don't have any suggestions, I just want you to know that you're delightful
Mmkay thank you, this is such a great thing to ask.
:wq!
Install one of the distributions where you have to do most of the installation steps manually, such as Gentoo or Slackware or Arch. Or Linux from Scratch of you want hardcore mode.
Stage lighting controls are extremely fun to learn. DMX, ArtNet, etc. QLC+ is free and open source, there are TON of other ones as well (like controlling big stage lights with a Wii controller so they move like you).
There are simulators, but the prettiest I've seen so far is https://github.com/AcChosen/VR-Stage-Lighting. Despite its name, you don't need vr for it but if you do, you can watch your lightshow as if it was real!
Make sick beats with milkytracker.
I honestly have that still on my to-learn list myself. But it does seem to be a solid choice for FOSS trackers.
Nushell
Blender
Godot
There's always software reverse engineering. As bad as it may sound to some people, the US NSA has a github repositroy for a tool known as Ghidra, under Apache 2.0 license, so you can look at the source code and determine whether or not it's spyware. If it's actually NSA quality, you know it should be good enough for reverse engineering old software that won't land you in trouble if found out by the original devs. Last update was 2 months ago.
I tried a little bit but have yet to go very far at all with it since I am an idiot who thinks he's smarter than he really is.
Though, taking a page from your book, I am interested in looking up rekordbox now.
idk the software but multitrack audio editing sounds fun.
i've been hitting up kaggle.com, freecodecamp and exercism.org for Python courses.
Selfhosting is a nice rabbit hole
I saw Krita was already suggested. Also give Inkscape a go. It's meant for vector graphics instead of raster. (like SVG vs jpeg).
