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  • The program Fog Panther (if this it the program the OP is referring to) was already rejected for using (entirely?) Ai: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/8077 . 3 weeks ago they closed it with conclusion:

    Sorry we don't review AI Slop.

  • I like yoghurt.

  • alias e='echo "${@}"' Wait a second, Bash does not process arguments in alias. This is an incredible trick new to me! All the years I was writing a function to accomplish that. I wonder if there is any drawback to this technique.

  • Aliases themselves do not take arguments. You can write Bash function for that case. Here is a "simple" example. I leave the comments there explaining the command too:

     bash
        
    treegrep() {
        # grep:
        #   --recursive             like --directories=recurse
        #   --files-with-match      print only names of FILEs with selected lines
        # tree:
        #   --fromfile              Reads paths from files (.=stdin)
        #   -F                      Appends '/', '=', '*', '@', '|' or '>' as per ls -F.
    
        grep --recursive --files-with-match "${@}" |
            tree --fromfile -F
    }
    
      

    You can also set variables to be local to the function, meaning they do not leak to outside or do not get confused with variables from outside the function:

     bash
        
    # usage: yesno [prompt]
    # example:
    #   yesno && echo yes
    #   yesno Continue? && echo yes || echo no
    yesno() {
        local prompt
        local answer
        if [[ "${#}" -gt 0 ]]; then
            prompt="${*} "
        fi
        read -rp "${prompt}[y/n]: " answer
        case "${answer}" in
        [Yy0]*) return 0 ;;
        [Nn1]*) return 1 ;;
        *) return 2 ;;
        esac
    }
    
      
  • I do write scripts and commands (and Bash aliases or functions) all the time. The scripts live in ~/.local/bin and are executable like any other program, as that directory is in my PATH variable. I have a projects directory where I archive them, and some of them are uploaded to my Github account. Some of them are later rewritten in Python and get a life on its own.

    1. yt-dlp-lemon: Simple wrapper to yt-dlp with only a subset of options.
    2. unwrap: Wrapper to marry GNU Parallel and 7-Zip for archive extraction.
    3. biggest: List biggest files and folders.
    4. ?: cheat .sh - The only cheat sheet you need. (Note, commands name is just ?)
    5. woman: Preview list for man documents.

    Besides my more simple scripts and aliases and functions.

     bash
        
    alias update='eos-update --yay'
    alias updates='eos-update --yay ;
      flatpak update ; 
      flatpak uninstall --unused ; 
      rustup self update ; 
      rustup update'
    
      
     bash
        
    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    
    for file in "${@}"; do
        output="${file%.*}.mp3"
        if [[ -f "${output}" ]]; then
            continue
        fi
        ffmpeg -i "${file}" -b:a 320k "${output}"
    done
    
      
  • We are cooked.

  • This is the correct reply.

  • how

  • I hope not.

  • I was skeptical, immadiately. Can't imagine Epic Games worth "just" $1.5 Billion. A terrible title.

  • Now it makes sense why Epic raised the prices for Fortnite Vbucks. I thought its greed, but looks like Epic is in trouble.

  • Remember: This is only what we notice and know about. The dark numbers are usually higher with every organized criminal activity.

  • Right, I assumed too much here.

  • We are all biased. :-) There is no other way to judge games for your personal taste or experience.

    It also depends on the context. I assume you was a E.T. fan and you was young, didn't have many games and really wanted to like it and played it a lot overlooking its flaws, until you got a bit the hang of it. I am assuming a lot here! Then decade later you have so much experience, filter out good from bad games and then comes Superman 64, maybe you don't even care about Superman (Just assuming here, let's put anyone in this role, not just you). And then "oh yeah shitty game, no one cares".

  • I genuinely think that Superman 64 is more entertaining and fun to play than E.T. .

  • I feel like this was probably someone working at GTA IV who sold this. But he is afraid of getting sued, so they invented a story about car boot sale. And who knows if the price is even correct...** /tinfoil-hat**

  • Debian updates every 300 years only.