The & is an indicator to most shells to run this command in “the background”. Try and run ( sleep 10; echo hi ) & - you’ll see you get your shell prompt back, where you can run more commands, but 10 second later you’ll see that ‘hi’ come through. ‘blocking’ is the default behavior, if you don’t add the & you’re still going get the hi in ten seconds, but you don’t get a prompt because your shell’s execution is blocked until your command is done.

The doc here is indicating that you havea choice between autostart_blocking.sh and autostart.sh, the latter of which would be run with a &. They could have expressed this better.

As for why your script didn’t work, I’d try executing it in a terminal to see what error message comes up.

both mobile and desktop have the plaintext notes in a sqlite db. they’re “easy enough” to export if you’re bailing on the app, but not to regularly switch between two different apps

don’t forget to install gti

I think you can link a second Whatsapp app, similar to the web client. your primary one needs a webcam to read the QR code though

A JavaScript VM in the kernel is inevitable.

not by any means modern, but I used to really like pal

More than that, your editor doesn’t run with root permissions, which reduces the risk of accidentally overwriting something you didn’t mean to.

it feels to me, like they’re less looking for new people to start doing this “work”, but more to connect with people who already happen to be enthusiastically going to events and showing off their laptops.

yep. they’re still here. they got smaller, and we call them “tracking pixels” now.

it’s just an image, which, server side, you can count the number of times it got loaded. easy to embed and no js required.

The value proposition of old or used android phones as SBCs is insane! You’ve probably got some in your drawers, or can at worst buy some carrier locked ones for 30$. You get a device with better compute than a raspberry pi, with a screen, cameras, speakers, flashlight and battery attached!

Personally, I use them to run and monitor my 3d printers.