Playing around with PeppermintOS on a "new " old laptop, and having fun. Its making me realize that tiny things can really work to impress. (Especially when you’re waiting on a ram upgrade, haha!)
Could be terminal based or GUI, I’m just curious—what tiny apps do you use that you think are neat? Things that don’t take up much storage or memory.
tealdeer takes up 3.7MB on my system. It’s a rust implementation of
tldr- simplified man pages with practical examples. If I want to do some common thing with a program I don’t use very often, chances are I can type (e.g.)tldr killand it’ll tell me what I need to know.cool-retro-term for all your old-school CRT needs. 1.8M executable.
GNU Parallel
Unlock the power of multiple cores in your command lines!
- Dialect for translation. Flathub link
- Image Roll for viewing images. It’s faster than most image viewers, especially on slow devices. Flathub link
- Quick Lookup for finding the meaning of a word on Wiktionary. Flathub link
Ripgrep is honestly such an awesome tool. Super fast, easy to use, and has built-in support for hidden files and .gitignores making it more flexible than traditional grep.
ledger because I love to know about my money
Nice. I’ve been putting off for some time trying to find something better than GnuCash or buckling down and writing my own. This looks perfect.
You should check out: https://plaintextaccounting.org
Wow! Will do. Thanks.
What do you dislike about GnuCash?
jqfor parsing/formatting/manipulating JSON, and itsyqwrapper for YAML. Holy shit you can do powerful queries with them.yt-dl for videos
and gallery-dl for pictures good stuff
yt-dl for videos
Or the fork yt-dlp
