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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Becoming a father at 28, after realising that is what I want from life; going deeper into the realm of love, wanting to live out the unconditional, unfaltering love for my own offspring. Finding the perfect person to go down that rabbit hole with, getting married, and less than a year later we have our first child.

    It was all so easy and natural, made manifest by two people sharing this simple dream. A solid foundation was cast, I got to see firsthand that I can do this just as good as I hoped.

    Something also happened before in my mid-20s. I was on a bit of a blue streak. Ended up taking an introductory course to zen sitting meditation. Two sessions was enough. Realised there’s a photocopier in my head that spews out thoughts, some of them ugly. I couldn’t turn it off, but I could refrain from reading the papers. Found inner peace right there and it has stuck.



  • I had Arch ARM, but that is no longer an option on the first Pi Zero since they dropped support for anything less than ARM7. It’s still applicable for Zero 2 though.

    The config was such that I had my phone and a fold-up Bluetooth keyboard for a terminal and connected to the Pi over Bluetooth PAN. The Zero had a PiVoyager board and a 26650 Li-ion cell for power - the whole thing fit in a case the size of a pack of cigarettes :D I could just have that in my bag, slap the phone and keeb on any surface and type away.

    I agree that setting the structure of the document as you go is the most effective way of doing things. Doing a separate pass for formatting is a chore best avoided!



  • The Linux way:

    • write a script: you can use the find command to find for example rars in a folder. find ~/thatfolder -iname ‘*.rar’ -exec uncompresscommand. Read ‘man find’ for specifics. Script’s first line is #!/bin/bash. Say ‘chmod u+x script’ to make it executable.

    • set up a systemd timer unit that calls a service unit that runs your script at intervals.

    • you can use something like for file in ~/thatfolder/* ; do sed trick that extracts the file extension and puts it in a variable ; case $variable in ; bunch of cases for different extensions. Variable $file will hold the source file name. Read up on bash scripting to figure it out.

    Welcome to penguinland :D