Day 6

I haven't had much time for computing today, with a 2.5 hour journey home, etc.. I might not have any time tomorrow either as I'm seeing a good friend of mine from about midday...

Looking back

The week has been quite a busy one with little time to engage with the challenge. In general, I haven't had many major problems, though since I've still been doing some things on my smartphone (which exceeds the maximum specification for a computer involved in the challenge) I guee I've been cheating a bit. I have favourited Mastodon toots from my phone, but I haven't boosted or posted from my phone, just relying on the scripts for that. I will need to write a script for favouriting them too and extend my scripts so I can page through messages. Also, polls are an issue with a large number of bugs in my scripts for displaying them and no ability to vote in them.

Emails have worked OK, though they have been fairly slow as my main email box for home stuff now has around 47000 messages in it, so the headers tak a while to download! I have still been able to use it though.

It's a little annoying writing these blogs the way I have as, if I let Nano wrap the text, my textfile fills up with linebreaks that I'd have to remove before posting, so I've been using the "-w" flag to stop that, but the upshot is that all my text for each paragraph is on one line, so it's hard to keep track of what I wrote. It's also sad that I can only post/modify blog files from the SmolPub script, so I can't upload images etc..

I have been able to view images with flpicsee, but I had an email with a PDF attached, which contained an SVG and had no way to view the SVG even if I had been able to extract it from the PDF, so I had to forward the email to a mailbox I can access from my phone.

I've spent less time on social media over the course of the week because of the challenge, though whether this is good or bad depends on your perspective.

I've been still using Discord a little from my phone for some asynchronous communication, but only really with communities I can't talk with otherwise. When I've been bored and only had access to my phone, I've tried to limit my browsing habits to Gopher, which is more in the spirit of the challenge.

Scripting

Looks like it's fairly easy to add Favouriting capability to my scripts, so I've quickly done that, using screen to save display space when looking at the docs. I'll just see if it works...

Hmm... Looks like I can't use the scripts for viewing my timeline alongside screen as I would need to scroll the terminal window and they seem to cause glitches in less (even less -r). I will have to close the docs and screen...

Looks like it's worked! I would like to be able to view my favourites too, but I may have to write that script after the challenge ends.