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@pastleo
pastleo / howdy-face-recognition-arch-kde.md
Last active June 2, 2024 06:27
Setup face recognition authentication on ArchLinux and KDE Plasma using howdy

Setup face recognition authentication on ArchLinux and KDE Plasma using howdy

This is surprisingly easy...basically following Arch Wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Howdy

After some investigation, here is step by step and preferences

Install howdy

@barbietunnie
barbietunnie / udemy-courses-download-using-cookies.md
Last active July 18, 2024 12:14
Downloading Udemy videos with youtube-dl

How to download your Udemy course videos using youtube-dl

$ youtube-dl --list-extractors | grep udemy

Steps

  1. Get link to the course to download. e.g. https://www.udemy.com/course-name/
  2. Login into udemy website, save the cookie from chrome using Chrome (Cookie.txt)[1] export extension. Save it to file udemy-cookies.txt
  3. Get the link of the video that you want to download. usually in format. Use the command provided below where you have to replace the {course_link} and {path_to_cookies_file} with respective paths.
$ youtube-dl {course_link} --cookies {path_to_cookies_file}
@dwilkie
dwilkie / ubuntu_unattended_upgrades_gmail.markdown
Created July 2, 2015 10:28
Setup unattended upgrades on Ubuntu with Gmail

Install the unattended-upgrades package

$ sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades 

Edit the periodic configuration

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic