Edit: I think there are better answers downthread than mine, but I hope my first comment spurned them on.

Not the most experienced bash guru at it but let me see…

• does the while condition have to be within [ ] brackets?
• Also I can’t figure out what your condition is, it seems to have an unclosed quotation mark.
• Most bash while-do-done loops I’ve made have a comparator like -ne for not equal or -le for less or equal to. So for example: while [ $variable -ne 5 ]; do

Hello, and welcone to Lemmy. Glad you made it, here’s my overall advice:

• No need to get hung up over a few early downvotes on your comment that might cause its score to go negative for a bit. People can be strongly opinionated here. Not everyone agrees with me on this, but I do appreciate people willing to post honestly held unpopular opinions and play a reasonable devil’s advocate in threads. (This is different than just being a contrarian.)
• For your own and everyone’s benefit, try to engage in thoughtful, well reasoned and good faith discussion with empathy for others where it’s due. If you feel like a chain of replies is going nowhere good, there’s no shame in walking away from it.
• Report and block the jerks, trolls and spammers you might encounter like on any forum-like site. Don’t let them spoil your experience when most people here are respectful.

Enjoy your time here!

How often would you like to hear about Beef Stroganoff?

Weideljugend?

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) added in his own message, “Deny entry. Deport all non-citizens. Denaturalize all fraudsters.”

“We start with Afghanistan,” Fine added. “But we must not end there.”

Right-wing Cuban immigrants in Florida, among others, are about to get what they voted for…

How does one effort without effort?

Oops. The strategy to put on a cruel and embarrassing display to dissuade investment, and then ask for unilateral investment isn’t working?

Would you look at that, the first snowflakes of the season came early! ❄️

So Amazon bad, Costco good?

The two companies are super different in their corporate practices, to their customers, to their suppliers, and to their employees. There is a material difference despite them both being American multinationals. I’m also buying local Canadian foods from them. Grocery chains in Canada are an oligopoly as well, so just moving to Loblaws, for example, would only be a marginal improvement in my view. It’s important to have some nuance in this discussion, and I’m changing my habits a bit at a time.

Yes it is has been difficult to replace it all. I review once every few months what I’m subscribed to and whether it’s worth it. (Airline gift cards alone offset the cost of membership for me). It’s also been tough to keep track of if a Canadian brand got bought by the US in the last few years, or if a US brand produces stuff at a Canadian factory. I’m not perfect, but I don’t think I’m the only Canadian who evaluates their consumption choices and look for alterantives where available. That’s the whole point for me being transparent about where I still am tied to US companies in my last comment, so thank you for raising it.

Yeah I love New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Portland and all the other wonderful cities and natural icons of the USA, but the problem is to get there I’d have to go through the Trump gestapo’s border control. Trump and his cronies have been saying they don’t need Canadians, so we’re respectfully showing what happens when we you take us for granted.

Oh and yeah, Americans are welcome to visit us anytime. We’ll provide you with our hospitality as usual.

I’ve not ordered anything from Amazon since September last year… cancelled Prime in 2025 to boycott USA. [email protected]

Small electronic components, random plastic doodads, SD cards - Aliexpress, Amazon sells the same stuff at a markup, so all I need is a tiny bit of patience to replace my biggest Amazon spend category. In Vancouver there’s no competition outside of Lee’s, but in Toronto I go to Sayal Electronics.

Computer equipment - Memory Express (your local PC parts chain).

Big purchases - from manufacturers’ website or brick and mortar retail.

Groceries - From the grocery store. Costco for local cucumbers, milk and cereal, and the local grocery store for BC grown other food

Books - Indigo, or the random roadside book shop on Vancouver Island or one of the many bookstores. Or, the public library. Digital books: the high seas. Audio books: plenty of digital storefronts online.

Are there categories I’m forgetting Amazon is used for?

So more like “wealthcare” than healthcare.

YouTube link to that interview

We need a baguette stream to see if it lasts longer than Lecornu’s second tenure.

Slowly, over the course of 3 months.

I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.

I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I’ve since kept that vow. Now that I’m fully weaned off, maybe next year I’ll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy [email protected]

I will say your original comment does imply that Amazon was the same the level of rubbish the whole time, and it was merely the perception of it improving because of it becoming a fad. With all due respect to you, I think that is the point that is getting pushback from others. (Not to mention the ad hominem about sociopaths)

If we want to use the Nazi bar analogy, Cloudflare is like a company that bought up so many bars in town that some end up not vetting for Nazism well enough, letting it slip through, not necessarily playing favours towards or against fascism but they would technically be a ‘Nazi bar’ under the analogy’s definition. Cloudflare is so big that they probably don’t have controlling interest about the pet projects they kick some pennies towards.

If you want to boycot Cloudflare itself, that’s fine and noble and all, but also staying away from anything they’ve ever donated to, you’ll put yourself in a bind. Like if Cloudflare donated to animal welfare, should one be against animal welfare simply due to second-order links to fascism?

Also there is a lot of reading into the comments used to link the two projects to the fascist regime. Very much a stretch.

Dan Supernault has been hard at work making an open source, AGPLv3, soon to be ActivityPub Fediverse-linked shortform video service called Loops.

Congratulations! The fact you passed is a testament that you are comfortable enough behind the wheel to be trusted with driving a vehicle independently. But it really is more a milestone than an end-goal, what you do with that from here is up to you. You could choose never to drive again but still renew your license every 5 years.

If you’re in the area (Vancouver, Canada), we could hold a “Mike Hunt passes their driving test” two-person celebratory parade.

I get the feeling of working hard and then being exhausted and emotionally drained afterward, but I’d be very interested to know what you were expecting out of all of this.