I’ve been meaning to try out netpbm

If you aren’t aware, pbm represents an image with plaintext, which makes it great for when you want to easily create an image with code

I recently learned there is a whole suite of CLI tools which work with the format. Like conversion to/from png, scaling, and overlaying one image on top of another.

I’ve using localsend and it’s great :)

I would normally use KDE Connect (iOS version) but I had some issues with it. The push local clipboard didn’t work, and I think receiving files to my phone didn’t work either. It also had a hard time reconnecting to my computer after pairing. It might be better now though, this was several months ago.

I primarily want something simple I can bend to my will, and secondly I want a good out of the box experience. For me that’s been Arch + KDE. The wiki and AUR are great!

I would say every step of the way I just wanted more and more ownership of my system. I make it, I break it. One specific experience which drove me to that camp was the time I had to jailbreak my iPhone and dig through files to disable some deprecated parental control setting… give me ownership over my stuff!