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    What is the simplest way to transfer a file between two systems?

    This question baffles me, I've been using computers my whole life and I still don't know the simplest way to transfer a file. When working with remote servers, I will use rsync or scp and it's fine, they work perfectly, but for home computers that aren't running an ssh server, what do you do? I...
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    Has meson replaced autotools?

    It seems like a bunch of projects have migrated to meson vs. autotools but I haven't really seen much discussion about it. Granted, I haven't been diligently keeping up on these things anyway. I do remember always seeing complaints about autotools and I've seen it called "autohell" quite often...
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    Jokes in git's documentation

    I've been using git for years, but it was one of those things that you do a quick google search for and pick up the things you need. And once you have git clone, add, commit, push you're pretty much set. It wasn't until recently I even bothered to look at the man page for git, where I'm greeted...
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    No more manually updating .bashrc to add something to your PATH

    As a linux user, I find myself often needing to update my .bashrc file to add something to my path. Then I must perform the lengthy process of opening my .bashrc, going to the bottom, adding export PATH=... wait, I forgot to copy the full path of what I need to add, etc. So I wrote a quick...
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    Fixing (or rather "enabling") scaling settings in GNOME

    Just wanted to share something. I recently started using PureOS which uses the GNOME desktop and one issue I was having was with all the text being too small. By default GNOME allows scaling of choosing if you want things to be too small (100%) or too large (200%). This command that enables...
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