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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago

I downvoted this via GUI. Using a touchscreen. Whatcha gonna do bout it?

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago
[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Not if I unplug my monitor first.

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[-] ToastedPlanet 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The second person typing ~~with one hand~~ on the keyboard. 💀

edit: was two hands but still

[-] jxk@sh.itjust.works 45 points 10 months ago

The unicode "three dots" character is making me irrationally angry. In the terminal, just use three dots!

[-] HappyFrog 2 points 10 months ago

I feel like this was written using chat gpt, or at least a cli version of it. The fact that it still uses "biomass" and the unicode dots is pretty weird.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago

I'm high school I attended a summer programming program where all of the computers we used were CLI Unix boxes. No GUI, no Windows XP. Just the command line and you. Learned quite a bit there, from basic C++ to very simple shell scripting.

I liked making my terminal environment black with lime green text a la The Matrix because it made me feel like a h4x0r.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Green on black is easy on the eyes. I used to rock an amber on black monitor on my ~~486/33~~ 486 DX 66 (I upgraded the CPU). It was full SCSI, coax networking, dial-up modem, and Red Hat (Halloween). The disc came with either a book or a magazine. It's been a minute.

I still have the machine in storage. Fully wrapped in cellophane.

EDIT: When I finally shut her down, her final uptime was a little over 2300 days. We were moving so down she went.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

Stop gendering objects as female lol

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

It's gendered the same way in my native language

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Which language? In the languages I know, computer is masculine.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Varies even within a language. El ordenador in Iberian Spanish, la computadora in Latin America.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

in Italian, computer is masculine but GUI is feminine

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

Haha same but no

[-] TheCoolerMia 11 points 10 months ago

I think it's cute :3

[-] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 8 points 10 months ago

Some languages (French is the most well known for this) don't have a neutral gender.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

English has ;D

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The terminal is itself an application or GUI where the input is text. What you really want to do is enjoin your spinal cord nerves to the chip interconnect so that you communicate efficiently using just electrical activity or the change in voltages.

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 25 points 10 months ago

Daily driving a cli only linux distro is surprisingly feasible these days due to the resurgence of various TUI applications. I'm still not insane enough to do it myself tho

[-] PassingThrough@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Web browsing is still kind of hard though. And games. But that’s because they are designed around graphics these days.

But for the rest of it, there’s a LOT of work I can get done on a nice terminal or three.

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

May I recommend "w3m"? Its an awesome text based browser. It even supports images if your not running in a pure tty.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

neither the graphic user interface nor the text user interface are immortal, but the graphic user interface is slightly longer lived because visual indicators are not tied to language, which is constantly in flux.

bash and *nix commands are an absolute immemorable mess. powershell is the command line shell with the most staying power, due to its standardized commmand naming scheme. but the reality is, a 🗑️ symbol will keep its meaning for much longer than “rm” “del” or even “Remove-item”.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

visual indicators are not tied to language, which is constantly in flux.

Core Unix commands have not changed since the 70s my guy. The syntax of modern ls, tar etc are still 1:1 compatible with versions that predate the invention of the concept of a GUI. Go 10 years back in GUI design back to 2014 and see how similar things are to today.

The one exception to this is Powershell, which has the core Unix command names as aliases to the equivalent Powershell commands without any attempt to convert the flags between them. Microsoft really desperately wants to convert *nix programmers and sysadmins back to Windows, and they're failing spectacularly because no one wants to use a shell where ls -l throws an error.

bash and *nix commands are an absolute immemorable mess.

that sounds like a skill issue.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 10 months ago

i am speaking in the very long term, hundreds to thousands of years. this was a joke/facetious response to a joke/overdramatic meme. sorry that wasn’t immediately obvious lol

[-] bobotron@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war and power shell

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

"grep" is an English verb, change my mind.

Yeah I can never remember the syntax for a few commands, but surprise, those are the commands I don't use often. And the command line being standardized means that using a shell on a Mac (work) feels... basically the same as using one on my Linux home servers.

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

alias 🗑️='rm'

ok what now

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 points 10 months ago

Ehm, as long as team-*nix doesn't uninvent the wastebasket :)

Nothing lasts forever, not two random letters that may have some meaning nor a weird emoji 🕳️

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 14 points 10 months ago
[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Me when I run sudo apt update in one window while top is running in other 😎

[-] TheCoolerMia 10 points 10 months ago

HELL YEAH! There's something about the CLI that feels so cozy and cool :3

[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And you never have to leave it because you can do literallu anything trough it!

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Sure, try editing a movie or climbing a mountain with it.

[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I mean then you're at the application, which propably has it's own gui. What I meant is that you never have to use any desktop enviroment etc. It's like with dos, you do everythinf in terminal and then you just open programs trough it which might have gui

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Had a class in college where we weren't allowed a GUI. Thanks Professor Becker!

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 10 months ago

Is there a way to launch graphical programs through the shell? I don't mean opening a terminal in your DE/WM but rather running without a gui but then starting a seperate gui just for graphical programs

[-] janet_catcus 9 points 10 months ago

yes, if you like your windows undecorated..

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 10 months ago
[-] janet_catcus 1 points 10 months ago

then you can just start an xserver (X11 or x.org), i think wayland comes with a window manager integrated... so i guess not what you want. you might also consider tiling window managers like rat or something similar, i could imagine those right up your alley (if you want to multitask)

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 10 months ago

well i am hyprland right now but i think im gonna try out rat, first time im hearing of it

[-] janet_catcus 1 points 10 months ago

well, there are probably more modern ones than ratpoison though... thats the one..

https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Jokes on you I use gui linux

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago
[-] Hailstorm8440@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago
[-] sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Took me a sec. I need to finish Boltgun…

[-] univers3man@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Praise the Omnisaiah!

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