I’ve been using (X)Ubuntu for ages. I just wanted something that “just works”. Tired of too much tinkering and there’s plenty of (non commercial) support. Mixing it with i3 as my window manager.

Roast me ;)

cgi-bin… Shudder

You can also use something like notifyd to generate a pop up for visual feedback :) I can’t remember the exact command right now though. Differs per distro or desktop environment, obviously.

I have been experimenting with Reaper a bit, but I am a sort of DAW noob, so it’s kind of hard to get in to. I’ve done a tiny bit using Lmms though, but I am missing synthesizer stuff in Reaper. I’ve tried installing plugins by putting them into the proper folders and let Reaper attempt to resolve it, but it doesn’t really work as expected.

Any tips? Especially for Linux of course. Many of the tutorials are Windows oriented.

Fish is a really great shell for daily use. There’s so much built in, its scripting language is better (not portable though if someone else does not have fish).

Fair enough, but Python is not that hard, especially for simple calculations. Start up the repl and type away!

from math import *
x = sin(12) + pi * 3.2
y = tan(x)
y
# prints 0.09200389785419612

Why not just use python as a calculator then?

Nitpick: a lightyear is a measure of distance, not of time :)

Is Python scripting working on version 3.0? For the life of me I can’t get that to work on version 2 (whichever version).

Write a ticket, mentioning “tackle TODOs” 😅

Hey man you’re human! Mistakes! Everyone makes them! At least you admit it, right :D

Eh, what’s a dcp?

What eldritch beast was summoned as a result?

My go to hack was quickly running a python http server and connect to it. I can’t remember what the command was exactly. Something like python -m http.server or so, then connect to the ip from my phone, heh.

Yelling at my laptop

Because it’s a statically compiled binary, it tends to grow the size of the binary. Increases portability though.

Yeah true. But Catherine said it perfectly at the end. Something like “you still don’t get it? What did you expect?”. The fact that one of his consciousness remains down in the abyss was kind of frightening. All by himself.

That ending screwed with my mind. Existential horror at it’s finest!

Wow I forgot I once made a DragonBall Z skin for winamp. It’s still there :D Blast from the past!!

Take this advice, especially if you are just starting with Linux. You can also install it in a VM if you are still running Windows, to get a feeling of different desktop environments (Gnome, xfce, KDE, etc) before choosing.