PC & software stuff

I used to have an RSS reader a long time ago. Now I manually check a dozen websites daily.

I want to go back to RSS.

Update: installed Feedbro extension for Firefox. Had to use Proxygram for Instagram posts, Politepol for one website, I think I’ve got most of it working now.

Couldn’t get automatic post updates from my Facebook group using Zapier though, despite connecting my account and adding the app to my group. Meh

Update: I think I got the Zapier integration to work after fiddling with a test group for a bit. :) The problem was a hidden permission setting somewhere with Facebook

Update after 2 weeks: very happy with my feed reader, I should’ve done this way earlier. I mostly got rid of my routine of cycling through websites to see if I missed any updates, and my internet browsing has gotten less passive. I just check my feed reader a few times per day, so I can browse what I find interesting, instead of mostly what algorithms think I find interesting.

After many years of Ubuntu, I’m still a Linux noob. This is me typing out loud while I try to install a program.

I moved to KDE Nobara (Fedora) late last year and so far it’s been a nice experience. The only program I didn’t immediately manage to reinstall after the move (besides my wireless dongle) is DupeGuru. On their homepage they only give an option for Ubuntu as well as the source, and I’ve never compiled anything from source.

I was expecting this to be a whole adventure log with me learning to convert or to compile from source or something, but apparently they do have an .rpm package, so I installed that.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work straight away:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dupeguru", line 88, in 
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/dupeguru", line 71, in main
    from qt.app import DupeGuru
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/qt/app.py", line 22, in 
    from core.app import AppMode, DupeGuru as DupeGuruModel
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/core/app.py", line 26, in 
    from core import se, me, pe
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/__init__.py", line 1, in 
    from core.pe import (  # noqa
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/block.py", line 9, in 
    from core.pe._block import NoBlocksError, DifferentBlockCountError, avgdiff, getblocks2  # NOQA
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'core.pe._block'

Instead of using a search engine, I asked AI (Perplexity) what to do. It told me to check if the core.pe._block Python module is installed and how to install it. That did not work and the AI kept repeating itself. So back to the search engine, the first hit was somebody with the exact same problem on the DupeGuru github. There the following was suggested:

sudo ln /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_cache.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_cache.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
sudo ln /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_block.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_block.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
sudo ln /usr/share/dupeguru/qt/pe/_block_qt.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/share/dupeguru/qt/pe/_block_qt.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

I checked my Python version (3.11.6) so I changed the 310 above to 311 and ran the commands.

Now it works.

Yay.