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My DNA is a sexually transmitted disease

Yeah, good point. It wasn’t in all caps.

I know a dude who has a daughter named ISIS, born before ISIS was a problematic name. Haven’t talked to him in years but I wonder how that’s going.

A terminal is a physical device like a VT100. When people refer to a terminal today it’s almost always a terminal emulator running on a TTY, ssh on a PTY, a login shell or a GUI program.

There is no “ackshully” and he didn’t call anyone a liar. He just said a statement was incorrect.

Odd. For me FF only updates when I open Firefox. I think I’ve seen this before but only a long time ago.

I’m not Australian.

The Australian pronunciation works… “squi-rell”. Common American one is somehow just one syllable, “Skwurl”

I used to use WindowMaker on seriously underpowered laptops 10-15 years ago. Seems like it’s still just as efficient. For something more standard interface-wise you could try IceWM.

Another thing to do is build your own kernel without any features you don’t use. Not sure how much of a difference that makes exactly.

The intro is a little less proscriptive: “ Here’s the list of my favorite Linux websites. Perhaps you’ll like them too.”

Yep, my parents have a few. Way easier than dealing with them installing windows malware constantly or having to maintain Linux for them.

When PCs started becoming fully mainstream in the late 90s, I thought “finally! people will learn to use them and not act like they’re paralyzed, computer use is nerdy, or like clicking around a GUI is terrifying!”. Alas, nope.

It’s possible to do amazing things with a CLI in seconds that would be minutes of clicking with a GUI - that’s why they still exist. And sure, it’s tuned towards people who would be “how about I write a Python program to handle this”.

Info pages, help and manuals are built into the system and commands. You don’t have to leave the shell to read anything. I’ve also explored it just by pressing a letter or two and then autocomplete. But you realize that average people need help to figure out a GUI too, right?

A car manual is more comparable to learning how to drive in the first place. And yes, sometimes I’ve consulted the manual to figure out what lights mean or how controls work.

“Guessing commands” isn’t the way to go about it. Read the man pages. Read the help for commands. Read a tutorial or some examples.

I mean in terms of license and privacy, not performance.

It’s incremental. Steam on Linux is better than Steam on Windows.

I absolutely hate the robot lady telling me where to drive. I can’t even believe that’s the normal way of navigating for some people. I’m used to (and this is a shocking concept) looking at a map and figuring out where to go.

A whole lot more than game engines uses C#.

It’s difficult to display an image without the client knowing the URL, but it would be possible to use a temporary URL that only works for that signed-in user.