arcane terminals
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Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.
She was an absolute master at it.
Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.
I bet one of her previous titles was literally "computer"
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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"
"grandma, i literally only typed
dir."My wife calls it “the app with lots of text”. She’s very beautiful.
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Yes but I'd say it started 10 years before that, growing in numbers through the first few years of the 1980s.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That could be, it was a rough period. I wasn't around for the beginning, and even the end is approximate as locked down mobile OSs and similarly user-opaque systems gradually came to dominate.
Kids today can still learn computers, but they have to explicitly try. I think something analogous happened with early cars. The first guys had to be able to personally maintain and repair the whole thing, and then over time it gradually became an area for experts and the odd enthusiast only.
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mine doesnt even know how to add a custom ringtone to her phone
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Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.
I bet one of her previous titles was literally "computer"
thats one of the nicknames the school jocks came up with about me
and i just accepted it bc i actually found it fitting so they had to think of another one lol
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pacman -S neovim-"Are you trying to play pacman?"
yes my favorite game is the arch package manager
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The whole "old people are bad at tech" thing is a bit long in the tooth now. Many people who grew up with computers are now old, and many young people are just as baffled by the command line as any grandmother.
i didnt say any grandma, i said specifically mine, who follows that trope. idk how yours is but mine is like that
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My wife calls it “the app with lots of text”. She’s very beautiful.
yes thats what my music teacher calls trackers too
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That's because the default color scheme is white on black. Just change it and Poof! Blue magic, red magic, yellow magic... so many possibilities!
is the blue magic another name for the bsod
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y'all motherfuckers need Bash
Give someone bash, and they'll shell for a day. Teach them fish and they'll shell for the rest of their lives.
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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"
"grandma, i literally only typed
dir."Wait until you type
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mine doesnt even know how to add a custom ringtone to her phone
Mine was convinced that cell phones and landlines were two different networks. Like you couldn't call a landline from a cell and vice versa. This went on for decades, even after we infront of her proved it worked.
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Wait until you type
topas a bottom i refuse
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My wife calls it “the app with lots of text”. She’s very beautiful.
At least she even comments. Mine just waves her hand in disgust. She knows it enables her whole technological life, but couldn't give a shit.
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I like typing arcane runes.
Nah, that's APL.
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mine doesnt even know how to add a custom ringtone to her phone
Do be fair that took me longer than installing the operating system too.
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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"
"grandma, i literally only typed
dir."wrote last edited by [email protected]"I'm gonna pop out and get some lunch because this is going to take a while and definitely isn't just an SSH into an Ubuntu box running apt update/upgrade in a loop."
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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"
"grandma, i literally only typed
dir."wrote last edited by [email protected]One of my favorite comparisons is computing to magic. They say that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A lot of people have a hard time drawing that comparison, but if you tell them that there are very special, rare
silicarocks that you can only find in specific places on earth, and that if you inscribe one of these rocks with billions of tinytransistorsrunes and thenpowerinfuse the rock withelectricitylightning you can actuallymaketrick the rock intoa processorthinking, and that this now let's you createsoftwareincantations which explain to theprocessorthinking rock how toexecute a programdo specific things for you, then they begin to see why. -
as a bottom i refuse
as a middle i refuse too
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That's because the default color scheme is white on black. Just change it and Poof! Blue magic, red magic, yellow magic... so many possibilities!
