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 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)

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How would you optimize 9/11?

In a perfect world no one would pirate video games. So I guess this is more of a realistic compromise.

In a perfect world:

1. Game publisher release Game with DRM

2. DRM gets cracked by pirates

3. Game publisher acknowledges the DRM has been cracked and compiles a new binary without DRM and redistributes it to customers.

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

That’s a Russian talking point from 2022. It’s like seeing a vintage car on the road.

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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Yeah but that’s what we want Skub to do. That’s the whole point of using Skub.

If done wrong, you could break your monitor.

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

(edit: oh no)

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.

The whole point of the silicone shield policy is that ALL Taiwanese semi-conductor manufacturing will stop if Taiwan is invaded. I don’t know why they specifically call out Nvidia GPUs. It’s not like we will have a lot of time for gaming if WWIII starts.

edit: oh the article is written by pcgamesn.com. That makes more sense.

command thingy

They grow up so fast.

Both the US and Mexico are capitalist democracies. The meme implies that Capitalists built a wall to keep Communists out.

It’s an awkward meme that doesn’t make much sense.