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Saved! Thank you so much.

I've used Linux full-time since late 2020 and I never knew about ctrl+y and ctrl+u.

I'd also like to contribute some knowledge.

aliases

You can put these into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc or whatever shell you use.

###
### ls aliases
###
# ls = colors
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

# ll = ls + human readable file sizes
alias ll='ls -lh --color=auto'

# lla = ll + show hidden files and folders
alias lla='ls -lah --color=auto'

###
### other aliases
###
# set color for different commands
alias diff='diff --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ip='ip --color=auto'

# my favourite way of navigating to a far-off folder
# this scans my home folder and presents me with a list of
#    fuzzy-searchable folders
#    you need fzf and fd installed for this alias to work
alias cdd='cd "$(sudo fd -t d . ${HOME} | fzf)"'

recommendations

ncdu - a shell-based tool to analyze disk usage, think GNOME's baobab or KDE's filelight but in the terminal

zellij - tmux but easy and with nice colors

atuin - shell history but good, fuzzy-searchable. If you still have the basic shell history (when pressing ctrl+r), I cannot recommend this enough.

ranger - a terminal file-browser (does everything I need and way more)

If you're thinking about cloud hosting, read up about how google accidentally deleted the whole of australias pension funds account and maybe think twice about if you can afford to lose everything you have in the cloud.

Of course, stuff like that doesn't happen everyday or to everyone. But will knowing that you've just been fucked by random chance help you when it happens?

If you can, do selfhosting. If you can't, at least have backups somewhere other than the cloud, because the cloud is nothing more than someone else's computer. And if it's someone else's computer, the weakest link in the chain of security is always a human, who may or may not be an idiot or who may have a bad day.

Yeah, I do daily VM-backups which include all of the data on syncthing. No matter what you have, you always gotta have a good backup-strategy.

I use syncthing for some of my "can-never-lose-these" files. syncthing synchronizes files between different devices. This is not an online-file-hosting thing like Google Drive or OneDrive. These files are physically present on all synchronized devices.

My server is the "main" (you can make everyone equal) syncthing every other syncthing connects to. With an established connection, files will be synchronized on participating devices. AFAIK, syncthing is compatible with Windows, Android and Linux.

This way, my important files are on my server, my smartphone, my PC and my laptop and every single one of these devices must simultaniously explode for me to lose my data. Also, it's on docker hub

pi-hole is another great one. Local adblocker for the whole network, just set it as your DNS server or let the DHCP server propagate this DNS server to your clients. This too is on docker hub

Oh, well. I'll see how it is when we'll play barony. It's not like this game is the only choice, so we can always switch.

Thanks for the heads-up!

I don't plan on playing any of these games over any kind of network anyway. I'm all for couch coop / pvp, it just hits differently :)

Good to know, thank you!

We always play on someones TV anyway. These are typically 46" ore bigger and have at least FullHD resolution. Would this be manageable?

You're welcome, I'm glad to spread the old-school pre-internet local couch coop fun :)

My personal favourites are

MageQuit

This is the most addicting of all the played games. I bought this with a "fun little magic-based pvp-only game for now and then" mindest. I thought "super smash brothers but magic". I started playing it with my friend on his TV "just for an hour" and suddenly, it was dark outside and time to go home.

The next meeting we planned on playing MageQuit for a round or two and then move on to one of the other, yet unplayed, games. The moving on part never happened, MageQuit was just too much fun.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

This is the game for the whole family. You (up to 4 players) are in a spaceship. The spaceship has different buttons and levers in different places to control different things like acceleration, changing direction, aiming / firing weapon, directing partial shield or countermeasure etc. and you need to rescue your bunny-friends.

They are scattered around the levels, sometimes hidden, sometimes locked up, sometimes guarded etc and you need to work together with your teammates to direct the spaceship. You get quite a few different weapons and shields / countermeasures, which can also be combined, you upgrades for the ship, can buy different ships etc.

It looks and sounds adorable, but if you don't work together, it's way harder then it looks. This is a game with a campaign and story.

Regular Human Basketball

Think basketball, but stupid and fun. The regular humans are actually motionless robots which need to be moved by using switches and levers inside it, which is what your job is. You even have a jet-boost at some parts of your regular-human body. We laughed our asses off.

It is similar to Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in the sense that, you need to work together to control a bigger machine. This is just a pvp only game, no story or campaign.

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Race each other to the finish of an obstacle course. After each round, everyone picks a new obstacle to place and expands the course. Seldomly have I ever seen such bullshittery as my friends and me created in this game and then had to go through.

I always search steam sales for local multiplayer games. I have not tested all of these yet, so I'm going to categorize them here.

Games I already played with someone (e.g. "tested")

• Boomerang Fu
• Brawlhalla
• Castle Crashers
• Gang Beasts
• Guacamelee - Super Turbo Championship Edition
• Helldivers
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• Regular Human Basketball
• Just Shapes and Beats
• Lethal League Blaze
• MageQuit
• Magicka / Magicka 2
• Make Way
• Overcooked
• Road Redemption
• Speedrunners
• Towerfall Ascension
• Tricky Towers
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• Wobbly Life

Games for future play sessions (not yet tested)

• Barony
• Beat Me
• Chained Together
• Fling to the finish
• Geometry Wars 3
• Goat Simulator
• Party Club
• Pummel Party
• Screencheat
• Sonic Segal All Stars Racing
• Stick Fight the Game
• Treadnauts
• Unrailed

Have fun :)

MageQuit was way more hilarious than I initially thought. I went to a friend to play another 2 or 3 games over the span of 6 to 8 hours. We started with MageQuit and suddenly, it was 8pm. We also played MageQuit and nothing else the next time we met.

It's going to be very funny when we finally all gather and play a free-for-all 6 player match.

Every cent was well spent on this one.

I only use my steam deck for portable, local multiplayer games. Well, except for when I play Pokemon Red / Blue / Yellow with EmuDeck.

I mostly find new titles via filtering by local multiplayer tags and buying stuff that's on sale and looks interesting. If it looks good but isn't on sale, I throw it on my wishlist-pile. There's plenty of fun stuff for couch multiplayer sessions!

The last time, we played

• Make Way
• Road Redemption
• Lethal League Blaze

All time favourites

• Super Smash Brothers 64 / Brawl / Ultimate
• MageQuit
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• SpeedRunners

Ha, that would've helped me a few times. Good to know!

Still, I wouldn't switch vim for nano ever again. nano is a good and easy start, but I think if you do more than just basic editing of a few files every now and then, learning vim is the way to go.

vim is pretty customizable, widespread and it has been around for quite some time after all. If you think you need it, somebody most likely already made it as a vim-plugin :)