genact - a nonsense activity generator

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Pretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work! Impress people with your insane multitasking skills. Just open a few instances of genact and watch the show. genact has multiple scenes that pretend to be doing something exciting or useful when in reality nothing is happening at all.

Installation

You don't have to install anything! For your convenience, prebuilt binaries for Linux, OSX and Windows are provided here that should run without any dependencies. Additionally, there is a web version at https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/

It's compatible with Linux, OSX, Windows 10 (it needs a recent Windows 10 to get ANSI support) and most modern web browsers that suppot WebAssembly.

On Linux: Download genact-linux from the releases page and run

chmod +x genact-linux
./genact-linux

On OSX: Download genact-osx from the releases page and run

chmod +x genact-osx
./genact-osx

On Windows: Download genact-win.exe from the releases page and double click it.

With Cargo: If you have a somewhat recent version of Rust and Cargo installed, you can run

cargo install genact

Running

To see a list of all available options, you can run

./genact -h

or

cargo run -- -h

or (on Docker)

docker run -it --rm svenstaro/genact -h

The help:

genact 0.3.2
Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro@gmail.com>
A nonsense activity generator

USAGE:
    genact [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help            Prints help information
    -l, --list-modules    List available modules
    -V, --version         Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -e, --exitafter <EXITAFTER>    Exit after running for this long (format example: 2h10min)
    -m, --modules <MODULE>...      Run only these modules [values: bootlog, cargo, cc, composer, cryptomining, download,
                                   memdump, kernel_compile]

In the web version, you can run specific modules by providing them as ?module parameters like this: https://svenstaro.github.io/genact?module=cc&module=memdump

Compiling

You should have a recent version of rust and cargo installed. You don't need nightly. Then, just clone it like usual and cargo run to get output:

git clone https://github.com/svenstaro/genact.git
cd genact
cargo run

Contributing

If you want to add a cool module just implement it, lint it with clippy and make a pull request with a screenshot. I will probably accept it.

Releasing

This is mostly a note for me on how to release this thing: