Ctl shift t - reopen last closed tab in tour browser
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Should be ctrl shift + t
Is there two shortcuts for this?
Fixed
Add Home/End buttons into your work flow to jump to the start or end of lines. Works with holding Shift as well.
For me, one of the biggest things was removing all the visual noise from my desktop. Disable notifications, disable or hide unused taskbar elements, and on Windows, get rid of the patently awful ticker thing that lives on the taskbar. Disable window animations.
I did the same thing on my phone, too, including disabling pop-up notifications, toasts, floating bubbles, and animations. My brain is much happier for it.
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hosts file block twitter/reddit/facebook/etc on all my computers. i guess i haven't done it on my phone because i can't be bothered [and regardless of how much i need a hit, i'm not gonna sit there on my phone browser for hours anyway]
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I've discovered over the years that these 2 commands can fix a lot of problems for a windows computer. And there’s no practical downside unless you're running pirated software or exotic OS mods.
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow
As with any advice online, its critical to research and understand what you're doing. :D
Pretty much anything has a free alternative. Often times, with a better UI or more features with far less bloat than the top commercial product.
The Multiple desktops feature is critical for me. It allows you to use one computer for multiple functional concepts simultaneously without visually interfering with each other or constantly needing to close and re-open things. It's available in both windows and linux (which had it first) for a long time now.
I keep my personal stuff on one desktop, I keep my work stuff on a second desktop, and I keep my gaming stuff on a third desktop. Then I just flip between them based on what I'm currently doing.
That way I'm not getting things confused with each other, or distracted by something personal while I'm working.
Ctrl+Windows+Left/Right for Windows is the shortcut to flip back and forth between them. Or you can also see it on the Windows+Tab menu as well (along the bottom below the apps)
The only downside to this is that you need more RAM than normal, because it's not uncommon for me to have dozens (sometimes north of 100) of browser tabs, and a half dozen applications from office to video games open simultaneously between the different desktops. I would suggest running 32gb at a minimum, and 64gb is a lot better.
I've found the windows one sorely lacking. As I recall all windows of a specific program have to be on a single desktop. This causes issues if you are working on multiple word docs, browser windows, or even just want access to email in both desktops. AFAIK there isn't a work around to this. Am I out of the loop on a nice windows feature?
You can specify a window to show on all desktops (or all windows from the same app). Just right-click the window from the Task View screen (Win + tab)
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You must be out of the loop, I have different browser tabs and excel files up on different desktops right now.
Sometimes if you need to start a new file it will swap you around, but you can always immediately move it wherever you want.
I’ll have to upload it here when I get back into work on Tuesday, but I wrote a PDF guide for the most common Windows and Mac shortcuts that I consider to be the essentials.
Use a tiling window manager like sway.
Get some big HDDs and self host your own file storage on zfs. Same for media servers like jellyfin. You can also host qBitTorrent web client so it's accessible from anywhere.
Set up a VM in Hetzner cloud and host vaultwarden.
Expose your services over wireguard.
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On Windows you can open up a WSL shell or PowerShell session directly to the folder path you want.
Hold 'Shift' then right click anywhere inside of a directory and you will get an option to "Open PowerShell window here" as well as to "Open Linux shell here".
Turn it off when you're not using it. Save on energy.
Modern computers don’t use much energy when they sleep.
If they sleep
If you also disconnect the power, just remember that this drains the CMOS battery in the motherboard. That's okay, just know that it may help to replace it if your machine has issues booting, time resets, etc.
Even 50W, 24/7, is 36 kWh/month. $3 where I live; $12 in CA.
In a browser I right click on a bookmark folder to open all the bookmarks in separate tabs. I usually do this with my social sites.
To update Fedora "sudo dnf upgrade". I used to use the software store but that often requires a reboot.
Windows+L to lock the computer.
I always have my vpn, terminal window, and qbittorrent start at boot.
Not most used, but I recently discovered a lot of new options in COSMIC's launcher, and I use them all the time.
Just type ? and you'll see what I mean.
Notepad++
Ctrl click to place to type the same things once on those spots.
Ctrl and alt together will allow vertical highlights so if you have to modify the middle of several lines.
Edit menu -> line operations to sort by several pre determined methods.
Dunno if Emacs Lisp counts as a life hack, but I've been slowly learning it, and it's very nice to be able to setup custom workflows with such a high degree of customization (and a substantial amount of flycheck yelling at me)
My computer gets hacked all the time, I'm pretty used to it now.