There is, it’s controller and peripheral

I looked at the replies as soon as I read Linus and laughed out loud at this

I’m not sure if this is the right setting for technical discussion, but as a relative elder of computing I’d like to answer the question in the image earnestly. There’s a few factors squeezing the practicality out of this for almost all applications: processor architectures (like all of them these days) make operating on packed characters take more operations than 8 bit characters so there’s a speed tradeoff (especially considering cache and pipelining). Computers these days are built to handle extremely memory demanding video and 3d workloads and memory usage of text data is basically a blip in comparison. When it comes to actual storage and not in-memory representation, compression algorithms typically perform better than just packing each character into fewer bits. You’d need to be in a pretty specific niche for this technique to come in handy again, for better or for worse

I still work with bash scripts from fish (to interoperate with bash users), but it’s more like how I use python: the interpreter is specified either in the shebang or explicitly on the cli command invoking the script. It works quite well actually

I’ve been all over the place tech-wise for at least 15 years now and I keep coming back to debian. Simple, reliable, and impressively enshittification-proof. I was on team xfce but got hooked on i3wm at some point and haven’t seen fit to look back.

I use Sublime for editor - it’s not free which I normally can’t tolerate but it has most of the functionality of vscode without being on the old corporate enshittification slide (and styles on vscode by feeling snappier too)

I would argue that that particular insistence of theirs is precisely why they’re still relevant today and seemingly immune to the enshittification and churn that plagues the rest of the ecosystem