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from the video description:

links to literally everything below. common q&a in pinned comment!

the song I had playing is worth a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdEPp_QtaUg


playerctl: https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl

manual page for it: https://man.archlinux.org/man/playerctl.1.en

MPRIS spec: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MPRIS

mpd-mpris: https://github.com/natsukagami/mpd-mpris

rmpc: https://github.com/mierak/rmpc

my vid on rmpc: https://youtu.be/oTOu7VfXnl8

my vid on mpd: https://youtu.be/6EAID9yopIE

original vid breaking down my music block script: https://youtu.be/VBzAY4bSTVo

rewrite of said script: https://youtu.be/TRRFrRt46VI

script: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/scripts/blob/master/statusbar/musicplaying


bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

my shell aliases: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/blob/master/.config/shell/alias

stats script: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/scripts/blob/master/shell/stats

my vid on bat: https://youtu.be/90sZYRoe-fo


lm_sensors: https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors

how to set them up: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lm_sensors

xclip: https://github.com/astrand/xclip

xsel: https://github.com/kfish/xsel

wl-clipboard: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

scripts mentioned: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/scripts

image clipboard history: https://youtu.be/PFuo1B7E3qw


chafa: https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/

ueberzugpp: https://github.com/jstkdng/ueberzugpp

fzfub: https://github.com/jstkdng/ueberzugpp/blob/master/scripts/fzfub


my vid on image menus (same as above): https://youtu.be/PFuo1B7E3qw

wallpaper photo is mine, you can download it free here: https://www.patreon.com/breadonpenguins
my music: https://unicornmasquerade.bandcamp.com/

0:00 why this vid
0:25 program 1
2:03 program 2
3:26 program 3
4:29 program 4
6:12 program 5
7:20 program 6

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

She has such a great channel. Happy to see it getting posted around here.

Nothing for me here. But I am still always happy when someone posts their little tools and scripts, because I have discovered some neat stuff that way over the years.

bat and batman are fantastic.

Still using ls aliases instead of eza, is old school.

fzf is what you really want.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've never heard of any of those. No description of what they are for but they mostly look video related. Ffmpeg and mplayer have sufficed for me so far, but who knows.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use bat and It's a game changer. it's just like doing cat whatever.whatever but with much more interaction.

[–] lukalix98@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I think of it like less with syntax highlighting.