Downloading a YouTube video with yt-dlp on Linux

yt-dlp vs youtube-dl

It’s well known that videos are not nearly as easy to save from a website as things like images or text. Although web browsers do not feature a default way to save videos directly to our hard drive, open source projects like yt-dlp and youtube-dl fill this gap quite nicely.

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How to crash Linux

How to crash Linux

There are a number of dangerous commands that can be executed to crash a Linux system. You may find a nefarious user executing these commands on a system you manage, or someone may send you a seemingly harmless command, hoping that you will run it and crash your computer.

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How to install PipeWire on Ubuntu Linux

How to install PipeWire on Ubuntu Linux

The purpose of this tutorial is to install PipeWire on Ubuntu Linux. PipeWire is a sound server that can handle playback and capturing of audio and video streams. It is a worthy replacement to other multimedia frameworks such as PulseAudio, which is the default on Ubuntu, and others.

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Ubuntu 22.04 network configuration

Ubuntu 22.04 Network Setup

Network setup for Ubuntu can range from easy to hard, depending on what you’re trying to do. Canonical prides itself on making their Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux operating system very simple to use, even if you do not have a lot of technical knowledge. Despite its simplicity, Ubuntu has a lot going on under the hood to make things work, including networking configuration that allows you to connect to local devices or servers across the world.

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Ubuntu 22.04 Features and Release Date

Ubuntu 22.04 Features and Release Date

In this article you will learn about some Ubuntu 22.04 features of the upcoming Ubuntu stable release. Canonical’s latest iteration to the Ubuntu operating system is Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. Ubuntu 22.04 release date is scheduled on April 21, 2022. This is an LTS (long term support) release – the type of release that Canonical only publishes every two years, and continues to support for the next five.

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