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Essex, UK
I work at a fintech startup in London. I Really like pair programming, cognition and education, and repeatability. Talk to me about testing, automation, or whatever you are passionate about.
Lewis Cowles (He/Him, They,Them,Theirs)
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I'm always such a weirdo, but my suggestion for a UI is to bake actions into nautilus / gnome file manager
https://gist.github.com/Lewiscowles1986/3077e2dd0048be449854c93edee446a4
I used this action in an experiment to bring recent games back to life, but I've also used similar actions to ensure anything with video/* mime can be converted to MP4, and in another script I strip audio from videos and convert to mp4 in one step
https://gist.github.com/Lewiscowles1986/bb2be137bf707d54dfd5818f70a0cbeb
Perhaps of use to some
My first install that I thought was Linux was Minix. My dad is a radio Ham, and he was using it in an old 286. I got him to show me how to boot in from DOS-mode of Win95 and I was sold.
Compiling took so long for me to understand so by my 14th Birthday, trying TurboLinux, Mandrake, Slackware & SUSE I got Redhat on CD with a HUGE book "Mastering Linux". By that time I could compile software so I could play games, or use my soldered in controllers.
It wasn't until 2008 I had systems full-time on Linux, and in 2013 when Windows became my minority system, I noticed my morale skyrocket after negative experiences with Apple's Macs.
My dad and I love Linux, but we're still trying to convince our wives to switch.