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RE: Where have I been? Also Hive-Nectar v0.1.5

in Synergy Builders9 days ago

Also, on the topic of nuking environments, I have found a new use for LLMs - take a snapshot of the current system environment / packages, and ask it to generate a shell script to restore your configured environments / packages :)

I did my "work" on this locally, figuring out what pip packages I would need, then once I built it, I wanted to deploy to my little mini pc. :)

I have done this for a proxmox container that will be running a little price checker script using selenium / beautiful soup. It goes to the specified URL, finds the price, compares the item to the user defined list, then logs to the console / takes a screenshot if there's a price difference. Next step will be to get it to tell me on telegram if there's a price drop.

(Think self-hosted 3camels in a python script)

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Alternatively, set up a hook (marky taught me this) to take a snapshot everytime you upgrade something with your package manager - could probably do the same with pip commands if you're not installing them into venvs :)

Wasn't anything as innocuous as pip libs. I decided to give wayland a try as a compositor as I'm and old geezer still in X11, and well, the libs even on debian sid are "dated" so, i installed a LOT of updated libraries just to build the wm, and it nuked like 99% of the apps debian installed. I could have restored the debian versions one at a time and picked off strays, but "it was time to put her down" :D

and install arch, right? :)

I have arch to blame for most of my knowledge as I used it for years. But I don't have the patience to configure every little thing anymore... Man I'm getting old...

I haven't booted into windows (Photoshop, PowerBI, Lightroom) since I installed Arch. I opted to use Photoshop and Lightroom on my Macbook M2 instead of pressing F8 on my desktop.

I am LOVING the freedom it gives me, and the performance! But I am reluctant to keep installing things as I slowly broaden what I am capable of on the system and the command line.

I'm still a total noob, but I am learning rapidly.

pacman is so easy, and yay gets you everything else. :)

I haven't been brave enough to playaround in fstab yet though...

Once it clicks it's hard to go back. I haven't booted into Windows for anything since the late 90s early 2ks.

That's how I learned, break it, fix it, break it again.

I start my new job in 6 days time - so I will presumably be using windows every day again, yuck. :P

But It will just remind me more and more why I am increasingly loving *nix environments.

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