nmtake

Here is the screenshot:

.

I think it's worth to try if you just want to play the song from minibuffer.

Please note that many users of FOSS are also developers or contributors. Who wants to report a bug or send a patch if the community is worse?

1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)

It seems to exist: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/

Bash should be fine. On typical Bash installation I think this will work (please try to understand each command line before you actually try):

$ cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak
$ cp ~/.bash_history ~/.bash_history.bak
$ printf 'set +o history' >> ~/.bashrc
$ printf "sudo apt update\nsudo apt upgrade\n" > .bash_history
$ (Press Ctrl+D to logout)

For the next bash session you can refer only the two commands from the history with Up/Down/C-p/C-n.

Long ago I made such restricted shell with filtering the shell command history file then disabling command history logging. With some shell scripting, I think you can get more sophisticated version. What shell are you using? (Bash, Fish, Zsh, etc.)

Not a direct solution but GET /api/v3/site may help.

The repository has Makefile so you can build the executable with make:

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt
$ cd lswt
$ make
$ ./lswt
$ sudo make install (optional)

I think https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt may work.

Some applications can't display some Unicode strings like s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵, so replacing Markdown element like ~strike~ with Unicode equivalent (s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵ ) may not be a good idea if you want portability. I opened your post in text editors and noticed that neovim-qt drops s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵'s combining characters (issue on Github) and just displays stroke instead of s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵; GUI Emacs with my font settings (Noto) doesn't combine the characters and displays s-t-r-o-k-e- (as I said, this may depends on font settings).

Can you get the stack trace with (setq debug-on-error t)? The error means rx got wrong regex form like (rx (** 3 2 "a")) or (rx (** 3 nil "a")).

I don't know why the motion didn't work in Evil mode, but if the goal is deleting all invisible Unicode characters, I'd write a command like this:

(defun my/delete-invisibles-in-region (start end)
  "Delete invisible characters in the region specified with START and END."
  (interactive "r")
  (save-excursion
    (replace-regexp "\u200B\\|\u200C" "" nil start end))
    ;; (query-replace-regexp "\u200B\\|\u200C" "" nil start end))
  (deactivate-mark))

Try glyphless-display-mode:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/65108/zero-width-space-shows-as-underscore