#powershell

i dont even know what question i could be asking here cause i dont even know what piece of logic im apparently missing. anything more than system health commands and I fuck it up.

if this feels like, intrusive amount of feelings from a stranger, you dont have to post it or anything. im just going off of how you've mentioned having your own frustrations so its totally possible that i miss the mark here.

Hey don’t beat urself up too bad. I know the feeling, but also, how many people in the world know something to at least this level? You’re still further than most and clearly care more than many.

I hate Windows cli. PowerShell can suck my ass and I’m not fond of Command Prompt either. Some tips are below, but honestly I would personally use a Linux VM, a Raspberry Pi, or an old Mac to get a UNIX terminal before I repurposed a guide to be primarily Windows cli. It can be done, but I am not joking when I say a brand new Linux distro install usually works easier (including time for new install). It really is a whole different world for this. Windows uses backslash \ instead of forward-slash / like Unix. So when trying to repurpose commands you need to swap all the "/" for "\" (like I just did on this post after remembering)

PowerShell (blue) is advanced and can do a lot. But it’s not interchangeable so I don’t care for it. You can call CMD commands from within PowerShell, it’s not the same as just typing them in Command Prompt for each thing you try.

Command Prompt (black) is kind of what has been dragged along from the DOS days. If you have a program you need to run from within a folder, you gotta specify the “.exe” at the end or just paste in the whole path to the program “C:\Users\pichu\Downloads\virus.exe” and then type out the command you want that program to process.

“C:\Users\pichu\Downloads\virus.exe” -xbj run --dont-wake-daddy

The one that trips me up the most is Android Debug Bridge (adb). It happens so often I feel like it’s a personal meme of mine or some shit

>adb devices

adb : The term 'adb' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1

>cmd.exe >adb devices

'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

>"C:\adb.exe" devices

List of Devices Below:

If the program doesn’t exist in System32, I think(?) you need to specify the extension every time. If the application doesn’t exist in the current folder you’re browsing (the path it lists before >_ ) then you need to specify the global path (recommended; “C:/folder/folder/app.exe”) or use relative folders (not recommended; “../../folder/app.exe”).

If you DO want to learn more about Windows PowerShell, and scripting (.cmd, .ps1), I am not the one to help. Sorry. Install WSL to maybe use an Ubuntu Bash shell or something, but that also has a bunch of drawbacks for a lot of things :/ Also if you use Windows 11 try the 'Terminal' app from MS on the Windows Store, it's better.

I just decided to try my hand at coding last week and today I just finished homegrowing an ethical text-to-speech voice model from scratch and I finally got an output that sounds somewhat decent.

Yayy, another patch 🫠 If your Mods folder is as ridiculously huge as mine, patch day = a hellscape of broken mods and Last Exception spam. I thought I might share something that makes patch days slightly more bearable for me. It's a script I wrote to make Windows scan the script mods (TS4SCRIPT files) in my Mods folder and generate a report that looks a bit like this:

(I cropped the tables in this image of my report, because I have a lot of script mods 😅)

The report doesn't tell you what script mods are actually broken, but it does give you a good idea of what script mods you probably want to check/update first when there's a patch, where they're located, and what date you installed/updated them. It also gives you other info, like what script mods you might have accidentally placed too deep inside your Mods folder to work. You don't need to download anything for this - it's just a script I wrote to make Windows generate the report for you as an HTML file.

Under the cut: How to make Windows spit out info about your script mods to save you time on patch days 🪄 ⤵

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I spent *hours* going through so many StackOverflow questions and reddit posts where brand new developers are trying to use a .gitignore for the first time and getting the syntax wrong or putting it in the wrong directory or naming the file wrong or they already tracked the files. All common mistakes I made when I was new to this, but not what was wrong for me.

I’m suddenly reminded what it was like back then everytime I had a problem googling every little issue and thinking some obscure issue was happening or there was a bug in git or something, and then I’d find the small error I’d made. But now I understand it so well I’m stumped what could be wrong.

Flashback to when I was trying to decide which OS to use when writing it and decided it was simple enough that Windows would be fine. Plus I want this to be cross platform and so it’ll be good to be forced to deal with Windows compatibility up front.

Then finally I found the issue: I created the .gitignore from Powershell and it defaults the encoding to UTF-16LE??? Why would they do that? Just to prank people trying to create files to be used literally anywhere???

Changed it to UTF-8 and it works.