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I thought this looks interesting, but was a little confused with what appears to be MacOS-only support at https://outerloop.sh/? I'm running Ubuntu 24.04, I kind of assumed from context that it'd be something I could spin up in a few minutes just to give it a go?

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Also worth noting, my decision to give it a go relied mostly on the fact that I couldn't quite work out what the product is. Having "Outer Shell" and "Outer Loop" described as distinct-but-connected entities is a little confusing, IMO, which do I need to install, on what, and in what order?

Cool idea anyway, no shade here.

I have also been having trouble grasping the difference between Outer Loop and Outer Shell. I thought maybe one was the desktop browser app for macOS and the other was something running locally on the Pi to create the socket. However, after bouncing between the links for the two, I don't think that assumption was correct.

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