arcane terminals
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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!
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Give someone bash, and they'll shell for a day. Teach them fish and they'll shell for the rest of their lives.
teach them batch, theyll ask for an ibm pc and a floppy
teach them basic, theyll ask for a c64 instead. and a cassette, apart from the floppy
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man that was the command that first got me into the terminal lol
it was also how i made a christmas tree when there was none: launch cmd, change the colors to a christmas-y palette (spefifically red on green) and run
tree. bam. christmas tree. look heres a screenshot
