Ah, I’m the one who misread, sorry.

Yeah, compiling things from scratch is the norm for lua packages, making them really only work on linux.

Sorry if it was unclear, I constantly get cryptic gcc errors using luarocks a package manager for lua. Its years behind pip.

Pip does fail sometimes, but its not half as bad as luarocks.

The instructions don’t work half the time.

Lua runs everywhere (almost), but I cannot install a uuid library on windows.

Compared to luarocks, pip is amazing.

Lack of windows support for most luarocks modules has stopped me from writing a lot of stuff in lua.

its

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so,

Its no thanks because you are making sure you are giving them no thanks.

I think piping something into aplay works, but I used a different command. I’ll share it if I find it.

https://youtu.be/GtQpThwWQtQ

Embedding Youtube videos like that doesn’t work, it has to be the raw video/image file.

A while ago I found a command which would let you pipe anything (binary, text etc) into sound.

/usr/bin/ls sounded nice, /dev/random sounded like static.

I read this, but it could be wrong

Printer ink is now the most expensive fluid that a civilian can purchase without a special permit. It’s colored water that costs $10k/gallon, which means that you print out your grocery lists with liquid that costs more than the semen of a Kentucky Derby-winning stallion.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

Can a consumer buy antimatter?

If so, I finally have a reason to start a gofundme.

Can a random consumer buy blood?

And the borders!

Especially considering ink is the most expensive liquid a consumer can buy.

I think its safest to assume time travel.