I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.
I’ve already learned:
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Equations and pivot tables in Excel
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Vector graphics in Inkscape
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Music mixing in rekordbox
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Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN
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LAMP stack web hosting
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Streaming & video capture with OBS
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Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync
Things I’m open to:
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FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software
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A high or low learning curve
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Tools for niche fields that I’d otherwise have no reason to learn
SQL - understanding how to interact with databases will be an incredibly useful skill for whatever rabbit hole you next want to fall down.
ssh and scp (secure connection and file transfer)
grep (the standard command-line search tool)
sed (Stream EDitor, good for find-replaces once you learn how to use it)
awk (can operate on text files or command output that’s organized in columns)
sc (terminal-based spreadsheet)
trash (safer replacement for rm that moves things to your desktop’s trash directory instead of deleting immediately)
Ardour, it’s a FOSS Digital Audio Workstation
Have you gotten ardour to accept input from guitarx’s USB interface? I hate falling g back to windows stuff for audio recording.
Honestly never had a reason to try, piano and vox
Factorio
This is just pure evil
Sketching 3D in FreeCAD.
You could get JOSM and become an OpenStreetMap editor. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
Also install gentoo.
How did you go about the excel learning? I find it to be too busy an area to get to parts I want to learn about, mostly pivots and formulas like you
Emacs
On NixOS
And remember when you learn emacs to also learn org-mode!
Now that is the gift that keeps on giving! I also like the implication that one can “learn” emacs.
Blender and buy a 3D printer afterwards
I don’t have any suggestions, I just want you to know that you’re delightful
Voicemeeter potato. Enjoy learning how all your audio devices work, and how to add noice effects.
Lilypond. Its music software. Learning it will keep you occupied for at least a week.
Adding to that, since I work at a computer I was never motovated to stay at tbe same place to learn blender so I changed to Nomad Sculpt at the tablet and I love it, I can do it from my couch (or toilet lol). It is a different aproach tho
Learn Krita. David Revoy, artist of Pepper and Carrot, has a ton of great tutorials on using it.
Came here to say the same thing.
Krita is a fantastic image editor.
The ability to script it with Python is a huge plus. I’ve created posters by having it read files from a directory and place images precisely spaced, etc.
Krita is a fantastic name for a KDE drawing app if you speak Swedish. Krita means crayon, and traditionally KDE apps were prefixed with a “k”, also Rita means to draw.
“Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.”
If that’s too basic/open ended, learn to animate in Krita.
