"short time out"
( where is the sangria ?;-) )

the rules of the game are simple - choose a photo (preferably your own), edit with gimp and tag #sundaygimp on a Sunday ;-) … and follow the tag.

#sundaygimp

(and also #Sunday-photo-edit )

Note: if you do not use gimp, but still want to play along, just use the tag #Sunday-photo-edit and edit the images with your favorite image editor

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Linux user makes tea

How can we have stopwatch magic in the terminal for making a tea with 3 min. infusion time? Or put it in other words: Let's use the terminal as stopwatch instead of some browser extension or whatnot.

Ingredients:
- water
- tea
- figlet
- espeak
- lolcat

Let's start with a simple stopwatch feature by using sleep. For a notification after 3 minutes:

sleep 180s; echo "Time is up!"

We could also use the tool timeout.

timeout 180s cat -; echo "Time is up!"


Let's have bigger characters for the notification (using figlet):

sleep 180s; figlet "Time is up!"


Ok. Let's also have some colors using lolcat.

sleep 180s; figlet "Time is up!" | lolcat

And some animations for the notification please:

sleep 180s; figlet "Time is up!" | lolcat -a -s 1000

Good. But what if the terminal is in the background? We also need voice notification.

sleep 180s; espeak "Time is up!"; figlet "Time is up!" | lolcat -a -s 1000

Hmm, it sounds still bad but let's have a female voice:

sleep 180s; espeak  -ven-us+f5 -s140 "Time is up!"; figlet "Time is up!" | lolcat -a -s 1000

Putting the frequently required time on an alias can be helpful. Or showing a countdown timer with some extra commands. Beautiful features of the CLI-world...

Addendum:
Let's check the weather in Gnu (remember: Gnu is not Unix, so you can replace Gnu with your location):

curl -4 wttr.in/gnu && curl -4 v2.wttr.in/gnu

Some more CLI asesomeness:

https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services

#cli #wttrin #wttr.in #tea #timer #linux #bsd #figlet #lolcat #gnulinux #stopwatch #timeout #espeak #terminal

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#childrenandchildhood #psychologyandpsychologists #deathsobituaries #parenting #staatsarthur19242021 #timeout #science #news