five little scripts for the tedious parts of linux: updating everything, getting a file onto your phone, moving sound between earbuds and speakers, finding a thing, and cleaning up whatever an update broke. plain shell, nothing running in the background, and they print what they did. fork them for whatever setup you run.
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the rule is simple: do the job, don't get clever, and don't touch anything i wasn't asked to. the six below are what that looks like in practice.
most of them take --check. run that and they say what they'd do and
stop. anything they'd overwrite gets a .bak-<timestamp> copy
first. nothing happens quietly in the background.
no service sitting in memory waiting for an event. you run it, it does the thing, it exits. nothing to enable at boot and nothing to remember to disable later.
when part of an update fails the updater prints PARTIAL and carries
on to the next thing. not a green tick, not "done". if it skipped something it
says so.
the installers download nothing. every dependency comes from the package manager
your distro already has, guessed from /etc/os-release. set
UPDATE_PM= when the guess is wrong.
plain shell, one small file per job, a comment at the top saying what it's for. shellcheck-clean, with a test suite in ci, because i'm the one who has to fix it later.
the runner talks to the other four, so its maid tab can toggle your earbuds or start an update. the helper hands controller work to the updater on opensuse. any one works alone; install more and they start noticing each other.
install the ones you want. none of them need the others.
send files and links from linux to an android phone
nothing to install on the phone. it picks a route on its own - kde connect if the phone is paired on the same wifi, usb/adb if there's no network, otherwise a temporary wifi page with a qr code - and tells you which one it took.
~/Downloads/MaidShare, no account anywheresearch everything from one key
a small qt search box for plasma. type, enter. tab moves between five sources, and the maid one is the only search box that knows what's going on with your system. nothing running when it's closed.
evalone updater for the whole system
system packages, flatpak apps and firmware in one run, with a snapshot before and after. it tells you when a reboot is needed. it doesn't reboot for you.
/etc/os-release: zypper, dnf, pacman or aptPARTIAL when a layer failed instead of pretending it passed~/.local/share/update-all.logbluetooth earbuds switching that doesn't fight you
one command moves the sound from your pc to your phone and back, or turns the radio off. dual-connection earbuds stop fighting the phone, and ldac stays on instead of quietly dropping to sbc.
on, release and off, each about a seconda first-aid kit for the usual breakage
checks the things that quietly go wrong and fixes what it safely can: missing fwupd, an empty flathub remote, nouveau blacklisted, a gamepad with no driver loaded.
check first and only changes things with fixnot a dashboard. about ten seconds of your attention, spread across the day.
runner key, three letters, enter. app, command, sum or search.
run on and the audio is on the earbuds a second later.
right-click, send. the popup tells you which route it used.
the watcher pauses the player and mutes discord, then puts them back when you hang up.
--check first to see the list, then a real run: snapshot, packages, summary.
the helper finds it, fixes what it can, and checks again after. asks for root only if it needs to.
each installer copies files into your home directory, backs up what it replaces, and pulls nothing from outside your distro's repos.
install what you want, bind a key to the runner, confirm every backend got picked up.
compatibilitythe packages per distro, and what happens when one's missing.
peace of mindhow --check, timestamped backups and pre-update snapshots behave.
logs, test suites, exit codes, and the questions that keep coming up.
under the hoodidle and working memory for each tool, and the reasons the suite stays light.
open source. clone one repo, run the installer, and see whether it saves you the annoyance it saved me.