I’ve heard of similar techniques using masks on the back of your head to discourage tiger attacks in villages close to wild tiger populations.

As I recall, it gets less effective over time because tigers are not stupid, just risk-averse. They learn with repeated exposure.

I’m going from memory. I’ll try to dig up sources when I have time.

Edit: Found it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attacks_in_the_Sundarbans#Precautions

Fishermen and bushmen originally created masks made to look like faces to wear on the back of their heads because tigers always attack from behind. This worked for a short time, but the tigers quickly caught on to the ruse, and the attacks reportedly continued. One local honey gatherer, Surendra Jana, 57, summarised the general feeling of the tigers adapting to their efforts: “Before we could understand the way they attacked…We don’t feel safe any more, knowing our brothers have been attacked in spite of the tricks we use.”

some combination of sort, wc, cut and grep

Word of warning: none of these tools are CSV-aware. You can hack together something that will work for basic files, but once you get something with quotations or escapes to include commas within the text of a field, you will really want a true CSV parser.

sqlite3 can import and export CSV files directly.

Python’s csv module is great.

VisiData is a cool CLI spreadsheet/csv/database viewer.

The microphone would only be used for voice control. So that would fail, but buttons would still work normally.

I want to do this, but I think my housemates would riot if they were stuck with the lower quality most streaming services deliver to Linux. Last I checked, you had to jump through hoops just to get 1080p from Netflix in Firefox on Linux, and 4K was nearly impossible. Same deal with a lot of other services.

Is there a way around that nowadays or do you have to either suffer poor quality or pirate everything? I haven’t actually looked into this in a couple years now.

That’s correct. Wine, which is what Proton is based on, is not a VM or emulator. It is a re-implementation of key windows APIs so Windows EXEs can run. Assuming you’re on a x64 PC, the code is executing natively.