Almost a chuckle

Where do you live that Antarctica is “up”?

I thought I was doing well with 8 down and 20 up! In my defence - a lot of the stuff I’m seeding is old (10+ years) and I’m the only seed.

Wow, that brings back memories. Slackware 3.x was my into to Linux in the '90s.

And, F-Droid shows apps that were installed from the Play Store.

For me it’s not about the size, it’s about the understanding. I’d really like to understand what everything on my system does and why it’s there. It seems impossible with modern systems. Back in the '90s I needed a secure email relay - it had lilo, kernel, init, getty, bash, vi, a few shell utils (before busybox…), syslogd and sendmail. I’m not sure any more as it was a long time ago, but I think I even statically linked everything so there was no libc. I liked that system.

That made me laugh for real. Mainly because it bought back memories - I’m pretty sure I first heard it from my dad - about 50 years ago.

Of course! It’s amazing how this stuff just flows from the keyboard when you’re typing in a shell window, but feels awkward when typing in a Lemmy comment.

grep -i fried < menu

That used to be my approach, but since I got symmetric 1Gb/s fibre I’ve found that if I leave it uncapped anything I download completes in a few minutes and I don’t download anything popular so I don’t have to worry about uploading too much.

Thank you - your description is the only one that allowed me to see the “other” perspective. If I really focus on the “wrong” bottom face and bottom left vertex I can see it the wrong way for a short time but the instant me brain notices the top right vertex it flips back.

No h on the end - just Jerboa

That was nearly 6 years ago!

I’m a little determined to stick with Python because I feel that I should - everyone should be able to code Python :-)

The main problem I have with it is the complex, relaxed, data structures. I’m finding that the type() command in interactive mode is helping a lot. I’m having lots of moments like - “Ah, I’m not down to the dict yet, I’m still in the list…”

Thank you for your detailed response. It’s a bit much for my proposed “project”. I won’t be using any libraries (other than built-in python json etc.). I’ve prototyped most of it and it’s currently about 15 lines of code. Literally one call to lemmy, a search to Musicbrainz and a playlist update to listenbrainz. I know it will grow lots as I make it a bit more robust, but it’s still very small.

Yes, I’m working on it now. Struggling with basic stuff like pulling values out of the json returned by the API when I ask for a list of posts. Python really does not click for me, but I’m determined, for now, to keep at it. An the RSS feed seems like a much easier (than what…?) way to just get new posts with each run - thank you!

I find Python difficult - no idea why, it just doesn’t feel right. I’ve tried a few times but never been able to do anything useful with it - that’s why it’s not in my list above. It does seem though that my proposed project, and development “style”, is best suited to Python. Maybe it’s time to try again.

I use so few features I could be using a 30 year old vi and not know it.

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I’m not a good reader - I skim most articles and often miss most of the meaning. I read, and enjoyed, every word of that!