Whirltube is the successor to voda (video on demand assistant), a QB64 program I made to interface with youtube-dl on Windows. I was correct about bash syntax being annoying--double brackets? Mandatory white space? Weird equality symbols? "fi"? Ugh--but I made a program.| a rickety bridge of impossible crossing
Update to Can't Work: shortly after that post, I sent my boss an email explaining the situation and asking if they could get me a new computer (the worst they can say is no) or, barring that, change the scheduled Windows Defender scan to happen in the evenings, when it can't interrupt my work. I didn't think the former would happen, but I figured the latter was a sensible request that would make me much more productive, so if they said no, my conscience would be clear.| a rickety bridge of impossible crossing
Sorry, didn't want to write about linux again but I've been thinking about the last post. After I slept on it, I realized it was not up to my standards of accuracy.| a rickety bridge of impossible crossing
My Linux rant has generated more feedback than anything I've written here. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, it's a subject a lot of people in my circles feel passionately about. What is a little surprising is how civil everyone's been: my approach to linux is a bit, shall we say, unorthodox, and I expected some heated comments about my intelligence and perceived naïvete; with one or two exceptions,1 all the feedback has been sympathetic and earnest offers to help.| a rickety bridge of impossible crossing
In response to , Kami which boils down to: >Just get Linux Mint. A reader named Mark sent a reply with much the same advice. I appreciate both of your...| a rickety bridge of impossible crossing