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Cake day: February 17th, 2024

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  • Thank you for the link!

    I do understand the logic and the difference between ;, &&, and `||. What was confusing me was the command grouping and my misunderstanding of the curly brace grouping rule that the command list has to END with a semicolon. @SheeEttin@lemmy.zip pointed out to me with the link in the comment they left.

    I had read that same link and misunderstood it. On second read I got it, and see now why my script is working, as the newlines serve the same purpose as the semicolon, so the curly braced groups are terminated correctly.







  • On the Mac, open qbittorrent, select all torrents in the client, and export them as torrent files or magnets, whichever you prefer.

    Copy all the torrent/magnet files to a thumb drive or something and copy them to the elementary laptop.

    On the elementary laptop, start without an internet connection. Connect the external drive with all the downloaded files, mount it if elementary doesn’t auto mount it, and note the path.

    Open qbittorrent.

    Set the default save path in qbittorrent to the path of the mounted drive with all of your downloaded files.

    If you want to do it in bulk, now add all the torrent files to QBittorrent. You may have to verify the file location for the torrents to make sure it sees the files on the drive.

    Once you’re certain all the loaded torrents are pointing to the save path for the files, you can close qbittorrent, connect the laptop to the internet, and relaunch qbittorrent.

    It should verify all the files it finds for the torrents, which can take some time if you have a lot of torrents, and once verified it’ll automatically start seeding










  • Agree. Make it as easy to read as possible. I learned this particularly after I had written a script that had a lot of nesting. It worked initially, but not for long and when I went back to debug I was like, “What the fuck was I thinking here?”

    I ended up completely rewriting it to minimize the nesting and make it much more efficient and readable