You can simplify the for loop by something like

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s globstar             #assuming bash
for i in images/**/*.gif 
do
     convert ..... $f
done

or, if you don’t use bash,

find images/ -type f -name '*.gif' -print0 | xargs -0 convert .... '{}' 
# maybe xargs needs "-1" option to process only one file at a time

both versions call imagemagick’s convert on all files ending in .gif in the images folder.

For testing, put an “echo” command in front of the “convert” .

You could also check out if there are Rust utilities which do what you want - you’d need to install these using “cargo install”.

You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don’t want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn’t car dependent or you’re gonna have a Bad Time™.

This. The two most important places are the home and the workplace. It is ideal if average daily commuting is less than one hour. But you can factor in that healthy humans positively need about one hour of daily excercise per day, so you can subtract that as gym time.

Everything else flows from chosing the right places and making it a priority to be able to get there either by bike or public transport.

Having done that, you will invariably find that you do not spend more time on errands and getting around than people which own a car. Inhabitants of Copenhagen or Amsterdam do not spent more time commuting than inhabitants if Houston or Los Angeles.

It is also great to chose a place with a community which has local social interactions. Most humans need that, too.

I live in Munich.

I bike to work. It is only 14 kilometers (about 9 miles).

If the road is to icy to cope with studded tyres, I take the fast commuter train… it is a tad slower, because bikes are often more efficient.

BTW I have doing that since the last 15 years and the last five jobs, in five towns or cities. That may shock you, but I am 58, and never had a car.

To go to places farther away, I use the train. We have a decent train system here (though it’s not as good as Japan’s or Switzerland’s - these countries lack bribe money from the car industry.)

I use the train for travel and vacation. I have been in a large part of Europe by train, including Greece. For example, in the last years, me and my partner traveled to Scotland, Netherlands, Croatia and Slovenia, and to Denmark - by night train.

BTW it also saves a ton of money. Cars are fucking expensive. In the last ten years, I spent about 3000 € on bikes (I have two, a normal trecking bike and a recumbent one), and about 1200 € on professional maintenance (I repair and clean most stuff myself, but I let look a bike mechanic for it every year, for safety and because it saves time and unplanned repairs). So, my costs are about 420 € per year.

Here another article on this: http://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/gemini.html (written in 2020)

From the article:

“What is the point of text-only webpages?” you may ask, especially if you are under 30. Gemini will probably not appeal to those who use the Internet primarily for entertainment, rather than as a source of information. But many, including myself, have lamented the demise of the 1990’s Internet. We want an Internet with webpages that do not take an average 10 seconds or more to download–despite having very little user-readable content, let alone content we may actually want to read. We yearn to return to the days when we could actually find noncommercial websites with an Internet search engine. Remember the days before about 2007 when a Google search could yield millions of search results, and Google would let you access as many as you wanted? Now, we get only a few pages of results that Google thinks are worthwhile. Though I have no proof, I suspect these may be mostly websites that have paid Google for the privilege of appearing in its search results. Go ahead and call me pessimistic. Perhaps I am.

So bike to your car. I like the idea.

Really, the Dutch are very pragmatic people.

One huge advantage that I forget to mention: Since Gemini does not use “addictive by design” UI elements popularized by social media companies, like feeds, timelines, likes and upvotes, colourful and distracting elements, endless scrolling, and comments that invite trolling, it feels a lot calmer.

And for Arch / Desktop systems, also look here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Internet

Ctrl-f “gemini”

The thing is that the bicycle is the only means of transport for medium distances which statistically makes your life longer, not shorter.

The reasons are the health effects of cycling, compared to the health effects of sitting in a car and not doing daily excercise. The number one cause of death is cardiovascular diseases, which are also caused by lack if excercise. These risks are far larger than the risk of accidents.

There are just too many things named Gemini

Here is a mnemonic for that: The port number of the open source Gemini protocol is 1965, which is the year of the first crewed flight of NASAs project Gemini, the first humans in space.

See section 2.2 of the FAQ

https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-2.gmi

Thete are aggregators. For example

gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

or gemini://rawtext.club/~sloum/spacewalk.gmi

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/

or comnunity interest sites, like

gemini://tilde.green/ ,

which is in turn a site of

gemini://tildeverse.org

https://gemini.tildeverse.org/

Then there are systematic directories, like

gemini://medusae.space/

and search engines like

gemini://geminispace.info/

see section 2.2.3 of the above FAQ.

That might be the right thing if the bath water is toxic.

And after that, one only has to configure a folder for the gemini page files, and configure the home router to allow access to that port of the Raspberry Pi.

The alternative is to get a shell account to a shared gemini server like tildeverse. This is usually free of cost since the software is almost maintenance-free and the power draw is a few Euros per year for the entire server.

Another advantage: The active Gemini user community might be small (it is maybe five thousand or ten thousand people). But compared to personal pages on Facebook or Microblog on Ex-Twitter, or Reddit or LinkedIn it has pretty high-quality content from people who like to write in long form, and also like to read. If you write there, the response / resonance will be more like what blogs or LiveJournal was around 2005. A part of this is that many people write in a personal, candid and thoughtful way. Like that Israeli evironmental engineer who wrote how much he hated to be conscripted for military service. And writing is also self-reflection. Like having a rare view into other peoples mind. ou do not find that on facebook.

Writing a page means editing a file with a simple syntax like markdown (called gemtext).

Running a gemini server is about as difficult as running a file sharing client.

There are pre-built server packages as part of Debian and its derivatives.

Or, one can install Rust and download and build the agate server. That’s what I did on my Raspberry Pi B. That Raspberry has an Ethernet port and USB port which can power it from my FritzBox. Needs half a Watt of Power when idle. Then, one needs to start the server on bootup. This is done via a service file for systemd.

minimum required to deliver the message and nothing more

Wait, that’s not fair! How will Google make money from that!?

One problem is that with this monopolization of the web, browser vendors like Google can yank the standard in any direction they like (for example for more tracking and more ads, or surveillance). And you can’t make another browser because the protocol and features are needlessly way too complex, so it is legally an open standard but practically not. In the end, everyone will have to use Googles browser and suffer the included tracking.

A work of Aaron Swartz, if I remember correctly. Don’t forget him.

Wow, very nice! Runs well under SailfishOS !

Ah, and one little useful tidbit for Emacs users:

Emacs has a builtin client of course. It also dislays images.

Just

guix install emacs-elpher

then restart Emacs and

M-x elpher