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Linux CLI tool for testing audio

The package alsa-utils includes a command called speaker-test. Install You can install with sudo apt install alsa-utils Run You can now run this to produce a constant sound speaker-test -t sine -p 1 ...
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Generating TOTP for 2FA directly from the computer (no mobile device)

KeepassXC This is a Linux native open-source password manager available from the Ubuntu repository. there is also a PPA if you want the latest. Install keepassXC either from the Ubuntu store or from ...
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Generating TOTP for 2FA directly from the computer (no mobile device)

If you only need to generate codes and not manage them (e.g. you do not mind storing the TOTP secret elsewhere and providing it each time you need to generate a code) you can use oathtool which is ...
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Program that shows the sound output in decibels of my speakers

I don't think it is possible. Given the same output signal from the computer, different sound devices will produce different intensities of sound (consider an earphone and a loudspeaker, where the ...
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Program that shows the sound output in decibels of my speakers

My laptop can energize my laptop speakers or a entire football stadium sound system. The short answer: Accurate decibel measurement can only come from measuring the output of each speaker in the sound ...
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Is there a site to upload text files?

Have you tried pastebinit https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pastebinit pastebinit can be installed in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu with the following command: sudo apt install pastebinit ...
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Convert speech (mp3 audio files) to text

OpenAI's Whisper (link to press release) is a relatively new free and open-source alternative, with pretty good performance in multiple languages. There are a few ways to install it, you can do so via ...
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Color Picker For Ubuntu 19.10 (and later releases as well)

IMHO it is not very efficient to open Firefox to pick colors, at least I wouldn't do that, especially because you can implement Ubuntu native tricks like @Porcupine answer, which I'd like to expand, ...
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Are there any close alternatives to Microsoft PowerToys' FancyZones?

gSnap I tried a handful of Gnome extensions, and gSnap seems to be the one closest to FancyZones. First a quick word on Tiling Assistant: I tried that as well, and mistakenly thought that multi-...
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An application similar to Virtualbox

Qemu and KVM are both similar to Virtualbox QEMU (for Quick Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator. It emulates a computer's processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of ...
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Cli tool to shift timing of subtitles

Using ffmpeg this command do the job ! link to the original answer ffmpeg -itsoffset 2 -i subtitles.srt -c copy subtitles_delayed.srt
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Does anyone know a Good real time voice changer for Linux? (Specifically Ubuntu)

The only one left (Working properly) is EasyEffects. URL - https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects And you can install it on ubuntu like so: sudo apt install easyeffects or using Flatpak from here https://...
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How to play music from Spotify and local files?

I have found the Tauon Music Box player, which seems to have the features close to what you ask for. Here's how it looks: Below I will try to address each point in your question. I would like to be ...
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Alarm clock for Ubuntu

Some options I like are below. All 3 have been fully tested in Ubuntu 22.04. 1. Alarm Clock Applet References: main answer by @Rinzwind Official website: https://alarm-clock-applet.github.io/ ...
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Speech-recognition app to convert MP3 to text

OpenAI Whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper This answer is slightly adapted from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256138/is-there-any-decent-speech-recognition-software-for-linux/718354#...
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Istat menu 3 of Mac equivalent?

13 years after this question, since I couldn't find a real alternative to iStat Menus on Linux I had to create one myself. It's called Astra Monitor and it's a GNOME extension so you need GNOME as ...
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Is there a way to open DICOM files?

On a whim I tried the ImageMagick convert command, and it worked like a charm: convert IMG00001.dcm IMG00001.png or to jpeg: convert IMG00001.dcm IMG00001.jpg I have not played around with resizing ...
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Cli tool to shift timing of subtitles

You can try srt-stf (srt subtitles time fixer): A simple tool written in Python: netharuM / srt-subtitle-time-fix srt-stf --file <input_track>.srt --time 00:00:28,500 -o <output>.srt This ...
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is there a command to convert svg to stl?

As this question is already bit older, i'm not sure, if an answer is still needed. In openscad 2021.01 svg files can be imported directly. To create svg file from something like png, i first convert ...
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Is there any way to use Google Keep in Ubuntu in 2022, now that Chrome apps are being phased out?

In Ubuntu 22.04.02 LTS running Google Chrome 112.0.5615.49 (64-bits) you can follow these steps: in Chrome, start Google Keep (https://keep.google.com/) in the 3 dots menu (top right, underneath the ...
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Generating TOTP for 2FA directly from the computer (no mobile device)

This is related to a question I asked on security SE a while ago. First of all, there is a useful command line tool called oathtool. You can use it to generate the 6 digit codes for 2fa using your 2fa ...
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Linux CLI tool for testing audio

SoX (The Sound eXchange) can do this. Install: sudo apt install sox At its simplest, to just play a continuous 440Hz sine tone, you can do play -n synth sine 440 play expects an input file, -n is ...
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Considerations when upgrading Ubuntu from 18.04 to 22.04 -- software development POV

Upgrading from one LTS Ubuntu version (18.04) to an LTS version that is two LTS versions newer (22.04) is a complicated upgrade that could introduce problems in a wide variety of ways. I see three ...
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Program that shows the sound output in decibels of my speakers

This is clearly impossible, which can be shown by a simple thought experiment: Assume that such an app exists. It checks the levels you are sending to the loudspeaker, it looks up the efficiency and ...
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Recommendation for note app

You can try Joplin. Image source: Joplin Website It is cross platform, and supports synchronization of notes and todos. Moreover, it is free and open source. While Joplin cloud requires a paid ...
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Are there any close alternatives to Microsoft PowerToys' FancyZones?

Pygrid has been my goto for years
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What are some great PDF editors for Linux?

I suggest okular developed by KDE community. You can install it from Ubuntu app store or simply using apt package manager. sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y okular
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Tools for creating a custom Linux OS based on Ubuntu

I'd recommend Cubic but you have to still go around and change branding, make your own DE, etc. I recommend building the desktop and server versions on Ubuntu Server with Cubic, it gets rid of those ...
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Is there a Google Input tools alternative for Ubuntu?

For Indic languages there is an offline tool: https://varnamproject.com/
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The "Speak Text" feature in Okular is not working. How do I get it to work?

If nothing else works (which was the case for me), I made a small python program which glues together pdftotext, espeak and aplay: pdf2speech It's not as good as having the integration with okular, ...
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