Download the current Android SDK Platform-Tools archive when you need adb and fastboot on Linux without installing the full Android Studio IDE. Google publishes the archive for Linux, and it contains the command-line tools that talk to an Android device. Use this path when you need a stable folder for device debugging, sideloading, log capture,
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Since Ubuntu 24.04, the developers at Canonical have replaced the stock GNOME Software Center with its own ‘App Center’. This would not have been a bad thing if the developers had fully integrated every feature of the GNOME software Center in their App store, instead the developers shipped a half-baked app store on the most
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Every Fedora update leaves at least one old Linux kernel behind, and DNF keeps three installed by default unless you tell it otherwise. That is normally fine, since a spare kernel gives you a way back if a new one breaks Wi-Fi or graphics. But once storage runs low or the GRUB menu gets cluttered,
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ASCII art on Linux covers more ground than most guides let on: converting your own photos into terminal-friendly art, pulling up the Arch logo next to your system stats, or grabbing a ready-made logo to paste into a README. This guide walks through ascii-image-converter, the tool most people reach for first, then rounds up the
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You can ask Telnet to connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl and, when the service is delivering its animation, watch the ASCII version of Star Wars in a terminal. It is a network connection to a public server, so the remote host decides whether the film stream stays available. Connect to the ASCII Star Wars service Run the
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Two commands answer almost every storage question on a Linux box. lsblk shows the shape of your storage: which disks exist, how they are partitioned, and where each partition is mounted. blkid reads the filesystem metadata itself and prints the UUID, label, and filesystem type you need when editing /etc/fstab or writing udev rules. The
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Two commands cover most checksum and encoding work on Linux: md5sum produces a fixed fingerprint of a file, and base64 converts data into plain ASCII text so it can travel through channels that only accept text. They look similar in a terminal but do opposite jobs. The sections below show the difference through hashes, verified
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You run ls, scan a crowded directory, and still cannot tell which file changed most recently. The ls -ltr command solves that in four characters of flags: it prints full details for every entry and sorts them so the oldest file sits at the top and the newest sits at the bottom, right above your
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Handbrake is a highly advanced open source video transcoder with which you can encode your videos to different formats and codecs so that you can play them on different devices such as Mobile Phones, TVs, Game Consoles etc. It is a really simple application, but you can go to lengths to customize every single preset
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In this guide, we’ll go through the steps to create an encrypted persistent live Kali USB. Kali Linux is probably the most popular penetration testing Distro out there. However, due to it being a rolling release and unstable in nature, it is not advisable to run it as a daily driver. Steps to Setup Encrypted
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