notes/updates.txt

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)

https://medium.com/techie-delight/top-25-algorithms-every-programmer-should-know-373246b4881b

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/pkgtop

Finally figured out how to get language servers working neovim, you have to npm install -g each of them from ~/.local/nvim/share/lsp-servers (note that there is still work to be done here...)

Download and install in virtmanager Windows 10 iso (for purposes of software tests)

Use this site (microsoft only has .exe now... 64 bit, version 21H2)
https://www.itechtics.com/windows-10-download-iso/

To understand google-font-installer(gfi): visit: https://github.com/lordgiotto/google-font-installer

Check out artix-news on github and look at its source code to understand a basic web-scraper written in python: https://github.com/ryukinix/artix-news

SOLVED:Currently troubleshooting fail2ban to work with this, but due to no systemd, fail2ban needs further configuration that I have yet to figure out

ANSWER: In /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf, comment out the line that says 'polling' under the search for 'backend'

This will allow for logging to be done with a native logger instead of it searching for systemd's journald by default.

Then create a file called /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/sshd.local and input the following:
[sshd]
enabled   = true
filter    = sshd
banaction = ufw
backend   = polling
maxretry  = 3
findtime  = 1d
bantime   = 1d
ignoreip  = 127.0.0.1/8

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Change LogLevel to VERBOSE

restart the fail2ban service and test it with:

doas fai2ban -client status

install paxtest

doas pacman -S paxtest

install firejail

doas pacman -S firejail

doas firecfg

doas apparmor_parser -r /etc/appamor.d/firejail-default

to disable certain applications in firejail, simply navigate to /usr/local/bin where you will find many of the soft links created by firejail:

doas mv someapp someapp_disabled (will break the link, simply name it back to its original to reenable it) rtorrent, newsboat, mpv, librewolf, chromium, links, steam, steam-runtime

also comment out in /etc/firejail/steam* all rules

cd /etc/firejail

doas nvim steam-native.profile
doas nvim steam.profile
doas nvim steam-runtime.profile

Install ncpamixer (ncurses pavu controller replacement)

paru ncpamixer (1st)

Install difftastic (better diff version with colors written in rust)
subtle change here
paru difftastic (only 1 option, very new program)

Install local network sniffer avahi:

doas pacman -S avahi avahi-runit nss-mdns

doas ln -s /etc/runit/sv/avahi-daemon /run/runit/service/

Install brother printer drivers
paru brother-mfc-j615w 1.1.3-2

Set up the printer using first by searching for all printers in the area:

lpinfo --include-schemes dnssd -v

This will provide you with the needed uri to name the printer:

lpadmin -p Brother

lpadmin -p Brother -E -v socket://10.0.0.251

Install ripdrag:

cargo install ripdrag

your zshrc has ~/.cargo/bin added to the $PATH variable to use ripdrag

Set difftastic as git diff default:

git config --global diff.external difft

Install glsxinfo (mesa-utils):

doas pacman -S glsxinfo

Install extra backgrounds

doas pacman -S artix-backgrounds artix-backgrounds-extra

Install mktorrent

doas pacman -S mktorrent

Add difftastic to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf (compiling does not recognize update on paru):

IgnorePkg = difftastic-git

Install calibre (ebooks utilities package):

doas pacman -S calibre

Install pdfgrep (grep utility within pdfs)

doas pacman -S pdfgrep

Install cpu-x

paru cpu-x (choose x11 from galaxy when prompted)

Install byzanz and silentcast (gif recorders, silentcast good for finding pixel start points for byzanz)

doas pacman -S byzanz

paru silentcast

Install asciinema (records terminal sessions for demoing of cli projects and uploads it to asciinema.org for use, login via proton):

doas pacman -S asciinema

Install figma-linux (sign in using email z3r pr@w)
paru figma-linux

Install brave and uninstall ungoogled chromium (configure brave first with extensions and chrome://flags)

Install css LSP in neovim

Install openresolv (for use with Mullvad)

doas pacman -S openresolv

log into mullvadvpn using your account number (see offline notes on desktop):

download configuration files (use default udp)

xtract -zip the mullvad.zip configuration and copy all files to /etc/openvpn/client

edit mullvad_x.conf to reflect all files to /etc/openvpn/client/files*

In /etc/runit/sv/openvpn/run, edit to exec /usr/bin/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/client/mullvad_x.conf

Install mkcert (good for ssl certification generation so you can use https on localhost...just have to figure out how it works...)

doas pacman -S mkcert

Install gobuster and dirb and strace

doas pacman -S strace

paru gobuster (1st option)
paru dirb (1st option)

Go to Chrome store and install CSS Dig on brave

Install slop and gifsicle and libimage-exiftool-perl and rebuild-detector and keynav and dvtm and dtach and lowdown and inotify-tools

doas pacman -S slop gifsicle libimage-exiftool-perl rebuild-detector keynav dvtm
lowdown inotify-tools lynis

paru dtach sherlock-git