Just found out about the Twiddler 4–a single-handheld bluetooth keyboard. too damn expensive at over $200, but something I’d definitely try otherwise.

I thought it woud suck, but with the touch typing + consistent dictionary guessing, it’s really on par with the random chaos of a touchscreen keyboard.

Small production run + half-decent internals probably accounts for a lot of the price.

Having experimented with $100 underpowered flip phone on KaiOS, lack of apps was a real problem. What (some) people want is the slight inconvenience of a T9 keyboard and an annoyingly small screen to help them limit their screen time, but they still want full functionality of all their apps.

You can hope to opt-out your society at best, but then the rewards for remaining societies to go full-bore capitalist are greater.

You can’t beat the system and the human race is doomed. Cephalopods are the future.

It’s a good goal, but not in a competitive world where you can be occupied/exploited… We had a series of small successful small societies all around the world and they were crushed by colonialism.

We’ve done this. The people in charge of the killing are the new kings.

Not saying it’ll yield a worse situation, tho.

Ah, so you have friends and family! That is a blessing, and I know that from distant experience.

I guess I don’t understand why remote access is such a popular use case. Throw some shit on your phone, h/d, or thumbdrive and you’re good for a few hours. I crammed 4 full seasons of STNG on my phone recently.

Cool! Thanks!

Is this standard PERL stuff? How I learn what all these things mean? One day I hope to write my own arguments.

Thanks! I’ll dig into this tonight. The man page could use a bit of work, too, if you’re feeling generous. A lot is assumed to be known.

Edit: Your entry is winning “shortest code” so fa r…

editted for clarity. thanks. I have a bad habit of not providing context. underdeveloped theory of mind.

Because I need to preserve the Season and Episode information.

Replace 'Star Trek The Next Generation Season ’ with ‘S0’

Replace 'Episode ’ with ‘E0’ or ‘E’ depending on digits

Keep episode title as is.

Yes, the “etc.” part. Imagine I have 7*24 episodes following this convention. How do I rename them all in one swell foop?

I’ll look into it. I’m going to be running a media server eventually, so thinking learning the command line arguments would be a good investment.

In this case, I’m moving these onto DVD and the truncated file names will all look the same on the DVD player, so I need to shorten 24*7 files.

Re-phrased the title. It’s a plain language question.

Operationally? The ones the New York Times pretends to support the aims of while burying you in an avalanche of imaginary horrible consequences and insisting on some delay (more research, popular consensus) before actually doing anything that would change the status quo.

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