I have noticed that the rate of my own sassy short comments has reduced quite a bit here, when compared to the past. I feel that the reduced volume of content, more detailed comments by others, and more of a sense of investment by commenters has encouraged me to up my game. To decide that if I am to comment, it is worth giving the comment more consideration and depth.

Will this continue? I hope so.

Ah! A Raccoon and/or Vegetable of culture! I tip my fedora to you and your one true time representation and storage system.

Love the smell of a good standards body fight in the morning (0900 GMT+0).

I’m probably the wrong person to ask if they’re using Unix-style features because I do use them. Hell, most of my RaspberryPI (and other SBC systems) I only ever use over the serial console and SSH. It’s the most natural way to interact with a computer.

Job control is something I do use. I regularly background processes, run other tools, and the foreground the prior ones. I’ll also launch GUI tools from the command line often. I launch ArduinoIDE, vscode, freecad, gimp, many others from the terminal. A common one is to be doing terminal file management, or git repo management, and then launch nemo with “nemo . &” to bring up a file explorer in the current directory.

I also use screen (never moved to tmux like I should have). I’ll ssh into servers and run screen to manage projects, edit code, and do long running processes in the test phases before deployment.

I’ll also suspend vim to drop to a command line. It’s faster than moving back to the mouse and waiting for another terminal. When I’m done, I foreground vim and get back to work.

I send OS signals with kill and such. Yeah, I leverage there terminal, process controls, and OS level signals. Should and average suer do this? Unlikely. My kids don’t (mostly GUI only work for them), but over time they have been inching forward on gaining more control over their Linux machines, so they’ll be doing process control soon enough. Especially for things like Minecraft and Terraria servers that they’re now starting to host for friend groups.

If not a character stream parsing based terminal input output system, what would you propose instead? The current computing models are merely the accepted approach, and if a better one comes along I’m all ears.

Ummm… Nope. You’ll pry my terminal from my cold, dead hands. There’s no faster way to get many system tasks done than the command line.

I use GUIs all day, but there’s almost always at least one terminal open on screen because that’s where the real work gets done.

The GPL explicitly states that you can sell the software, just not the business model to do so.

That’s exactly how Digg felt after the major exodus from there to Reddit. All that was left was advertisers and advertiser’s bots gaming the Digg system to fill up their front page.

The rot is deep and once the real people leave it becomes much more visible.

Ouch. Gotta wrap those deletes in a transaction and look before it rolls forward. Lessons learned. Time to see if the backups actually have any data on them.

Mine was to format the wrong computer on the first day of my first IT internship. I spent the next six weeks there fixing that oopsie.

This is a great one. I’m definitely using it in class this fall to explain static variables.

Could you also put w3m on there? All of our terminal only browser users need to be supported with the latest js/css updates.