#TIL i could download only part of a video thanks to #YTDLP
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/wiki/howdoidownloadpartsofavideo/
combined it with -x to download #ThePersuasions’ rendition of Looking for an echo from this lovely Spike Lee documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZZpkRwnNQ
Today I learnt how to get Org Agenda to show me only the day
https://janusworx.com/work/view-only-day-with-org-agenda/
tldr; (setq org-agenda-span 'day)
#mjbWrites #OrgMode #Emacs #TIL
#mjbwrites, #orgmode, #emacs, #til
#TIL that the mp3 and flac audio formats* support multiple instances of the same tag. i can now tag a song with multiple genres. I can now list BoneyM with both pop and disco! Hurrah!
*I assume other formats do too, but my library is mostly m4a, alac, mp3 and flac
#TIL about --inplace with #rsync. (I’m copying close to a tb of data disk to disk on a local machine)
Goodness gracious what a difference in speed!
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113000358568496987
#TIL that #KoboUtilities lets me store and restore reading progress to #Calibre
and here I was manually keeping track, all these years 😂
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215339
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112800249535250809
#til, #KoboUtilities, #calibre
#TIL want something similar to apt autoremove on #archlinux
Use: sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qdqt)
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112443028681869564
#til, #archlinux, #linux, #manjaro
#TIL: I could just C-c C-u to go up rapidly jump up the headline structure in an org file instead of just clacking up, up, up with my keyboard
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111978545459051982
#TIL: Switching software branches in #Manjaro #Linux
https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-switch-to-manjaro-unstable/
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111882620933511683
I got around some pesky Firefox errors when I would run profiles as part of #LinuxMint’s webapp manager.
Spoiler alert: #xdotool came in really handy!
I wrote about it here, https://janusworx.com/blog/getting-around-linux-mint-web-app-manager-window-errors/
#devops #scripting #linux #bash
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111426455998547291
#til, #linuxmint, #xdotool, #devops, #scripting, #linux, #bash
#TIL: Emphasise any text you select, in #OrgMode using the keyboard
Use Ctrl-c Ctrl-x Ctrl-f and it’ll let you choose your markup.
From #irreal’s latest #Emacs blog post
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11572
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110920506931058339
#til, #orgmode, #Irreal, #emacs