Use this file as a post-it for packages to install on laptop/desktop.

add notation about awk as
Select everything but the second field:
awk '!($2="")'

add notation about tr (translate command):
replace every newline with a single space: tr '\n' ' '

add notation about using find to list only files in current directory and NOT subdirectory:
find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f

add notation about using pick to parse through output, and pipe that using xargs to another command:
example:
ls | pick | xargs bat # will give you a choice of the files from ls, pick displays a menu to "pick" the file, which then is parsed to xargs bat (invokes bat on choice from ls | pick)

install snarf (great tool very much like wget, curl), and shellcheck (an error handling tool for bash scripts), and gawk (GNU awk), and nawk (BSD awk):
also install xorg-xsetroot (fixes cursor problem in bspwm)
doas pacman -S xorg-xsetroot snarf shellcheck gawk nawk

put gawk.pdf from programming_books on kobo

add to .xinitrc:
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &

install brillo and see if its better the xbacklight:

paru brillo