I know, right? It turns up on the sorrel in my garden every year

I have actually had to write something that used the Google drive API for a friend’s company once and it was… Unpleasant. Counterintuitive. Woefully inconsistent. My solution worked but it sucked and I am a bit ashamed of it

When I say asshole I usually mean someone with whom I’m currently dissatisfied

Alas, doesn’t fit my purpose since it requires action by the script user. I usually just use perl in those situations

I can never get grep to work consistently on Mac and Linux. Now, ripgrep OTOH…

This site is so good. Have found literally everything I’ve ever looked for there. Sometimes the torrents take a few hours to get trickling, but there are some absolute heroes seeding there

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I set up a nix os for a friend once. Forgot the master password. It’s been 5 years. Oh well.

I remember Linus saying in an interview that he’d only really been involved in git for the first 6 months or so and that the other devs had managed it without him since then. This makes sense - Linus’s creations aren’t successful because he’s the only person who understands them, they’re successful because there are so many other collaborators on them.

This is great advice. It’s easy to get disheartened with a spinning torrent, but heroes like you can turn that around.

I’m a simple man. I see midnight commander, I think ‘dang, I need to use it more, stop calling me out’

But how do you write your awk script?

Everyone always dunkin’ on Perl, but I can’t even tell you how often it’s been the best tool for the job. Like, at least 3

If you can, just use Perl. Probably installed on your systems, even the ones without python.

Many years ago, my aunt bought an old, terribly specced laptop and couldn’t get Windows to run on it. I installed Ubuntu and everything was fine - she could check her email and browse toxic conspiracy theories on Facebook and all was good with the world.

Two years later when visiting I got my first support request - would I mind showing her how to print something? No problem, but would you mind showing me what you were trying? She was selecting menu items to send to a virtual printer, not the one on the network. I show her the correct printer to send to and the thing prints. Easy. Out of curiosity, I check the outbox queue for the virtual printer. Over a hundred documents, going back two years.

For two years she’d been unable to print, and every single time she’d ever attempted to print something she’d followed the exact same steps that didn’t work, and just accepted that this was the way things were.

SMH.

There are two difficult problems in computer science. Naming things, and pairing with Bluetooth speakers.

Astroprojection is a dying art and I applaud your service

Hah. I’m sure once I read the rest of the responses I’ll see the observation that 1 is just a slow route to 2

Why use grub at all? If your laptop is compatible why not use rEFInd or something?

I often dream of trains - Robyn Hitchcock