Life in Python Recursive

def life(years):

 while years > 0:

  return life(years-1)

years = 110

life(years)

Python Fibonacci

fibs = []

for i in range(20):

  fibs.append(i) if (i==0) or (i==1) else fibs.append(fibs[i-1] + fibs[i-2])

  i += 1

print(fibs)

[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181]

Change an Image Background to Transparent

I have an image that has a background and I want to use that image on top of a second image. Therefore I need the first image to have a transparent background. Use Magic Select in Microsoft's 3D Paint program. Open the image that needs to be cropped with a transparent background. In my case it is a bandana that has a checkered background. Click Magic Select.

Use cursor to adjust the selection to fit the bandana.

Drag image and right click to copy on to the second image.

Tails OS and Cryptocurrency Wallet

I currently have a self custody Coinbase wallet that I access through a Chrome browser extension.
What I want is a cold wallet that is detached from the internet.
Since I am a geek, I do not want to purchase a cold wallet like the ones at https://www.guru99.com/best-crypto-cold-wallets.html
Instead, I would like to create a USB wallet, which turns out to be simply a live OS that has a crypto wallet installed.
List of components:

16 GB Flash drive

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Learn about Tails: https://tails.boum.org/

Download Tails: https://tails.boum.org/install/download/index.en.html

Installing to USB from Windows: https://tails.boum.org/install/windows/index.en.html

Create persistence storage on USB: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/index.en.html

Create cryptocurrency wallet: https://www.securitybind.com/make-your-own-cold-storage-usb-crypto-wallet/

Once again BalenaEtcher flashes the USB successfully, but the USB is not bootable. Now I must fix the USB drive, so search for "diskpart" on this blog for instructions.

After cleaning and repartitioning using diskpart, I then reformatted the USB drive through Windows with NTFS as the format.

I will now trying creating a bootable USB drive with https://rufus.ie/en/#google_vignette

After Rufus succesfully flashed the USB drive, I held down the [Shift] key and clicked Windows Restart

Voila! Tails booted from the USB drive. Now on to creating persistence and installing a cryptocurrency wallet.

Kali Linux - Failed to Launch Preferred Application for Terminal Emulator

After sudo apt update && upgrade, I was unable to open folders by simply clicking on them nor once inside a folder was I able to right click for a menu and open the terminal application inside the folder.
This fixed it:
sudo apt install xfce4-settings

Install Visual Studio Code on Kali Linux

Culled from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/install-visual-studio-code-in-kali-linux/

sudo apt update

sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg

sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install code

Delete Linux File with Special Characters in the Name

I mistakenly created a file called "vscode.list'". Note that there is a single quote appended to the last character. This will create a problem when trying to execute rm vscode.list'.
This is the workaround as executed through the terminal command line.
root@mya55:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# ls
google-chrome.list vscode.list vs.code.list'
root@mya55:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# ls -li
total 8
3933142 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190 Nov 11 14:26 google-chrome.list
3933031 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 Apr 23 18:38 vscode.list
3933030 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Apr 24 2022 vscode.list’
root@mya55:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# find . -inum 3933030 -exec rm -v {} \;
removed './vscode.list’'
root@mya55:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# ls
google-chrome.list vscode.list
root@mya55:/etc/apt/sources.list.d#