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Bat Is a Better Alternative to Cat

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install bat

Notice that the installed executable is batcat (instead of bat)!

Usage

Incognito Mode for Browsers

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The incognito mode is important for browsers for a few reasons.

  1. Testing purpose
  2. Some apps (e.g., secure emails) can only be used in incognito mode.

Chrome

Firefox

Format a Flash Drive in a Linux Virtual Machine

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Install VirtualBox.

  2. Create a Ubuntu virtual machine.

  3. Install extension package.

  4. enable USB support

  5. select the flash drive you want to format to connect to the VM.

  6. use linux commands to format …

Tips on AnBox

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. AnBox CANNOT be run on macOS.

  2. There was a limited support of ARM-only app on x86-based Linux OS. However, Android 11+ images are capable of running ARM apps on x86-based machines …