This is 90s thinking. Why must terminal emulators only be text and only do things that a physical terminal could?

I keep trying to imagine what abandoning TTY interfaces in Linux would look like and I can’t comprehend the rework that would be required. It’s so fundamentally different.

For example, how would the SSH protocol work? How would that be compatible? Would we have to abandon SSH or always X forward?

There is definitely a pressure to extend beyond standard TTY. Tmux captures mouse action and has a window management system. fish shell has autocomplete. But both of these still use the same medium of text.

I may simply lack the imagination.

TIL viu exists.

I think the issue fundamentally is that this isn’t what terminal emulators are. The terminal emulator initializes a TTY session and enters a shell environment (sh, zsh, fish, etc). The medium is text and cannot be anything else.

Begin able to view images in the terminal would be amazing alone - just like you can cat a text file. I would hate to need to launch a GUI program every time I wanted to see what was inside a text file but that is exactly what I need to do for images or PDFs.

Would be convenient. There are things like neofetch’s backend capabilities that magically embeds images, but I don’t know how it works and it might not be scalable.

Being able to collapse the output of a command would be nice as well.

Skill issue. Pipe your output to something (like a file or the “less” command)

They should put controls on lathes and mills to prevent making guns. Metal guns are a lot more effective than plastic guns anyways. /s

The AmericanCopsAreOnlyBastards brigade

Khan was arrested by Canadian police near the border in Quebec

so this is a very strange thing to see you commenting.

It’s because I didn’t include the “/s” at the end of the comment.

432 is definitely a troll/bot account. He calls a lot of comment sections a liberal echo chamber.

TIL neofetch came out in 2015. I just assumed it was one of those packages that existed since the dawn of computers

Wow. This comment is just another liberal echo chamber. 🙄

I like the imagemagick .desktop file that is always created when you install the package. It opens up a really terrible and dated paint-like program that no one ever uses.

The hottest day on record every year

The big common ones are i3, Hyprland, or Awesome. However, there are tons out there and there is no right answers.

But also liked when linux felt like a secret.

Don’t worry. You can still tap into that sweet sweet Linux elitism by running an Arch based system or a tiling window manager.

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It’s dangerous to go alone! take this.

hands Link a glock

If done wrong, you could break your monitor.

You mean your graphic drivers, right? not your actual hardware?

(edit: oh no)

Just think of all the thousands of dollars of extra tax revenue.

Keep the case and put a modern PC inside to make it a sleeper PC. Drill speed holes in the side for extra airflow that your computer will desperately need.

(1) I think you are underestimating how close Israel and the US are due to the billions we spend on their defense. It will evidently take more than genocide (or perceived genocide) to meaningfully deteriorate US/Israel relations to the point Israel starts aligning against the US alongside US adversaries. While western populations might be opposed to Israeli recent actions, no US foreign policies have meaningful changed.

(2) Israel is the definition of a soft power country. The type of games China and Russia play are of a whole different league. Russia and China can start a great power conflict with the EU and the US. Israel probably couldn’t fight France without foreign support.

The Neo Axis powers: China, Russia

Makes sense

and Isreal

wut

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