R.L. Dane 🍵

Dear #tooters,

Don't ever stop posting your nerdy passion projects.

Even when I can't understand 90% of what you're saying, I love them, and they bring way more healing to a very hurting world than you might surmise.

Thinking of trying #postmarketOS on my #PinebookPro.

I didn't even know you could run it as a desktop OS.

Supposedly the installer supports #FullDiskEncryption, which is... "poggers," I think the kids say.

#pmOS #FDE

Interesting #ShellScripting quandary:

I'm uncertain how shells delimit filename variables internally.

I have a shell (bash) function that loops through a set of PDF files, opening them in zathura in a "suckless" tabbed window (so that the PDFs always open within the same window, so I can just hit q to zip through them one-at-a-time.

Here is my variable declaration:

local files=${*-*.[pP][dD][fF]}

But for simplicity, you could just imagine it to be:

files=*

Then I'm doing a

for f in $files; do

I'm wanting to print a status line for each item viewed, so I have an idea how many more there are to go, so I'm using this:

echo "[[$f]] ($count/$tot)"

And of course, there's a ((count++)) at the beginning of the loop.

But how to get the total ($tot)??

echo $files |wc -l will always result in 1, as does echo "$files" |wc -l

What I ended up doing was just creating a

for f in $files; do ((tot++)); done

One-liner loop before the actual loop, just to get a total.

Is there a better way?

Am I missing something really obvious?

New #blog post: Libraries are awesome

https://rldane.space/libraries-are-awesome.html

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Getting back in the swing of things!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #16

#rlDaneWriting #Library #Libraries #PublicSpaces #Democracy

Just curious, does anybody use #KDE #Kmail?

I'm just toying around with the idea of switching my work machine from Debian to KDE Neon to get super-up-to-date KDE programs, and I wonder how usable KMail would be as an alternative to #Thunderbird (which I still really like).

@stephan

Sorry, didn't get the memo.

Why are you throwing in with the nazis again?

@stefano,

How can I request a snac.bsd.cafe account?
I'd like to have a backup account, and I think snac would be fun to try out.

New #blog post: Loops is... interesting

https://rldane.space/loops-is-interesting.html

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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @amin @joel @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton

(I will absolutely remove you from the chorus upon request )

#100DaysToOffload #8

#rlDaneWriting #blost #loops #video