Nothing humbles you quite like installing an Arctic Liquid Freezer III on an MSI MEG Godlike. The clearance between that massive pump and the VRM heatsinks is measured in micrometers.
Also, friendly reminder to anyone using contact frames: ditch the microfiber cloths under the motherboard. Static discharge near the socket SMD capacitors is a silent killer. Use the factory anti-static foam pad.

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💡 Calculate the number of days since a given date (e.g. 30 June 2025) on a Linux system:

echo $(( ( $(date +%s) - $(date -d "2025-06-30" +%s) ) / 86400 ))

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💡Use iperf3 to measure the network throughput between two Linux nodes effortlessly as follows: @fedora @opensuse

On server: iperf3 -s

On client: iperf3 -c <SERVER_IP>

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💡 Record audio from a microphone on a Linux system using gstreamer @gstreamer @fedora @opensuse @archlinux

gst-launch-1.0 alsasrc ! audioconvert ! lamemp3enc ! filesink location=recorded.mp3

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💡 Use the following Linux command to create a file with a specific access and modification timestamp @fedora @opensuse @archlinux

touch -t [FILE]

e.g. For a file named mytalk.txt March 10, 2025 at 9AM:

touch -t 202503100900 mytalk.txt

To verify:
stat -c "%x%y" mytalk.txt.

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