GO and why want to use it

When I went to school, I learned shell scripting (specifically ksh), C, Pascal and assembler. When I say “learned”, I mean just enough to get me started with any of them. Then I started work and I added perl to my portfolio. Perl was big back then. It was and still is amazing for working with text files. Analyzing logs and such. However, perl slowlt … died. It’s not dead but just less and less popular.
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Open steam ports with firewalld

One of the cool features of steam is that it can download games from other steam clients on the same network. In my case, I have a laptop and a steam deck. As a quick hint, the setting is in the Settings » Downloads section of the Steam Client. Look for Game file transfer over local network Allow transfer from this device to To allow the ports through the client firewall, activate the steam services.
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Theme update

It has been a while since I actually worked on the website. I decided to update the ’terminal’ theme to the latest version and of course, a bunch of tings broke. Mainly because I changed files within the theme folder instead of overwriting the files. I spent a good amount of time today to figure out what changes I had made and then move them to the correct folders outside of the theme folder.
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Canada paper work rant

Every time I have to do any kind of filing, I just get frustrated. I never liked doing paper work. Let’s face it, nobody does unless you are a psycho. I am kidding of course. Anyways. Back to my rant. First of all, why is there Letter an Legal? Have one format. I either have a folder that can take Legal or one that can take Letter. Either way, one doesn’t fit the other.
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Why SteamOS is important

Most probably have heard by now that the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS got announced. Looking at the reactions, I can see two fractions: This is the year of the Linux Desktop It’s not that big of a deal. It’s easy to install Linux. I wanted to address both of those. Let’s start with: This is the year of the Linux Desktop I doubt it. Mostly because SteamOS isn’t a desktop OS, but a console OS.
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