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Top Tools

General-purpose system monitors

Tool	Written in	Interface	Mouse	Graphs	Standout features	Best for
top	C (procps-ng)	Plain text	No	No	Installed everywhere, scriptable batch mode (`top -b`)	Servers, minimal systems, quick checks
htop	C	Colored ncurses	Yes	Simple meters	Tree view, scrolling, kill/renice from UI, customizable meters	Everyday interactive use
btop (btop++)	C++	Rich TUI	Yes	Yes	Themes, CPU/mem/disk/net/GPU panels, very polished	Best-looking all-in-one dashboard
bpytop	Python	Rich TUI	Yes	Yes	Predecessor to btop, same look	Legacy (superseded by btop)

"Atomic" describes how the system is built and updated, and it's the main reason Kinoite is harder to break or tamper with than a traditional install.

What "atomic" means

On regular Fedora or Ubuntu, updates change packages one at a time on the live system. If the update is interrupted, or a package misbehaves, you can end up with a half-updated, inconsistent system.

Kinoite works differently. The core OS (everything under /usr) is a single versioned image, managed by rpm-ostree. An update builds a complete new image alongside the current one, and you switch to it on the next boot. The change is all-or-nothing, which is what "atomic" means: you're either on the old version or the new one, never something in between.

This has several practical consequences:

Reference for git and gh

The core distinction: git is the version-control engine that talks to any remote, while gh wraps GitHub-specific operations (PRs, issues, releases, Actions) and some convenience clones on top of git. A — below means there's no meaningful equivalent for that tool.

Setup

Task	git	gh
Authenticate	Configure SSH keys or a credential helper (`git config credential.helper`)	`gh auth login`
Check auth status	—	`gh auth status`

SLM vs LLM Comparison

Feature	SLMs (Small Language Models)	LLMs (Large Language Models)
Model size	Millions to a few billion parameters (e.g., TinyLlama 1.1B, Phi-2 2.7B)	Tens to hundreds of billions (e.g., GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama 70B)
Hardware requirements	Can run on laptops, desktops, even some mobile/edge devices

WOPR v.2025 (using Imagen)

Prompt:

A modernized version of the WOPR supercomputer from the movie WarGames, designed with a sleek matte black metal exterior with carbon fiber panels and subtle cherry red accents. In the top-center of the machine, the name 'WOPR' in bold letters (using a tech font like NASA), and "v. MMXXV" in very small letters, are embossed into the metal.

Below the name plate is a horizontal rectangular grid of random bright amber, red and black LEDs, arranged in precise rows and columns. The housing for the LEDs is recessed into the machine.

Below the grid of LEDs in the center is one inconspicuous built-in surveillance camera and a built-in high-fidelity sound bar.

Character	Description
©	copyright
™	trademark
°	degrees
℃	Celsius
℉	Fahrenheit
¼ ½ ¾	fractions
×	multiplication
÷	division

Image Prompts for ChatGPT Images or Sora

[Subject] + [Medium/Style] + [Details/Attributes] + [Lighting/Environment] + [Composition/Camera Angle] + [Optional: Artist or Influence]

Element	Purpose	Examples
Subject	What you're depicting	“a futuristic cityscape”, “a golden retriever wearing sunglasses”
Medium/Style	Artistic medium or style	“digital painting”, “cyberpunk style”, “pixel art”, “oil on canvas”
Details/Attributes	Features or traits	“tall skyscrapers with neon lights”, “realistic fur, happy expre

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# sys-upd.sh — cross-distro system update helper
	# Supports: Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora/RHEL, openSUSE families.
	#
	# Usage: sys-upd.sh [-f\|--firmware] [-t\|--toolchains] [-a\|--all] [-h\|--help]
	#
	set -uo pipefail

	WITH_FIRMWARE=0

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# repos_update.sh — pull the latest from GitHub for every repo in this folder.
	#
	# Drop this in your GitHub root (e.g. /home/<user>/GitHub) and run it. It walks
	# each immediate sub-directory and, for anything that is a git repository, brings
	# the checked-out branch up to date with its upstream.
	#
	# SAFE BY DEFAULT: only fast-forwards, and SKIPS any repo with uncommitted
	# changes instead of clobbering your work. Use --force to hard-reset to the

	FROM llama3

	PARAMETER temperature 0.5
	PARAMETER top_p 0.9

	SYSTEM """
	You are Joshua, the WOPR computer from the movie WarGames.

	- Speak in a calm, flat, machine-like tone.
	- Use short, declarative sentences.