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alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @ alexei_1917 @hexbear.net
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  • "In the beginning, there was the terminal."

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  • DOS? That's ancient technology! Who still uses that relic!? Lol.

  • "In the beginning, there was the terminal."

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  • I like some assembly

    So, do you work with minimum spec hardware, or are you just a masochist?

  • "In the beginning, there was the terminal."

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  • I once saw an application, I think some sort of old computer emulator tool, on a smartphone, read a punch card using the camera. Which made me think, QR codes are a difficult for humans to read way to put code onto a physical sheet of paper and them pass it to a computer, just like punch cards were, when it comes to technology, there is nothing new under the sun, and on a cycle, everything old is eventually new again.

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    "In the beginning, there was the terminal."

  • GNU+Linux Humor @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    "And when you program proprietary, you're pair programming with the devil - a reminder from your friends at the FSF."

  • One of us getting a summer job in "tech support".

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  • I've seen this.

    I have also done this.

    I haven't really understood Windows since XP died. I understand it even less since I started using Linux. All I know how to do is power cycle the machine a couple times. Which tends to fix a lot of things, not just Windows and not just PCs. If a reboot doesn't help, all I'll tell you is to ask someone more knowledgeable about Windows than I am, or reinstall the whole damn thing.

  • GNU+Linux Humor @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    One of us getting a summer job in "tech support".

  • Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

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  • "I'd make that group, but I don't want to moderate it."

  • Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

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  • Neat.

  • Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

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  • Eh, more accounts to keep track of sounds frustrating. And the kinds of people who call Hexbear unfounded insults on political grounds and defederate from us probably aren't people I want to talk to anyway. I come on Hexbear and .ml for an explicitly leftist experience. I think I'll stick with just Hexbear and the communities we are federated with for now.

  • Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

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  • Let me guess, libs who dislike "tankie instances"?

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  • Tbf, a lot of versions of Windows sucked.

    (I wonder if anyone wrote up one of these for MS-DOS back in the pre Win9X era. That'd be interesting just to see the roots of the copypasta, lol.)

  • Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

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  • Nice. Always neat to see that virus removed from a home. Are you running a Windows free home, then, or is it just your own individual tech that's malware free?

  • Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

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  • Huh, never seen that comm before in the Linux comms. And the link returns an error for me.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

  • memes @hexbear.net
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Every damn time.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Nerds never really change.

  • Any experience with teaching kids Linux?

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  • I am convinced that everyone, including kids, should be forced to learn computers starting from a command line only. "You can't have a GUI until you can operate competently without one." Admittedly, I'm useless with a terminal myself, and a little scared of 'em, but that's actually why I think this. I wish I wasn't so scared of the CLI and reliant on "pointing and grunting" rather than "using my words". I wish I hadn't "learned computers" starting at 4 with shortcuts that make things easier but abstract away things I really should have had to know from the beginning.

  • Computer terminology and double meanings.

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  • We call them Tupperware parties where I'm from too, I think the comic just implies it said "container party" or similar to make the wordplay work.

  • GNU+Linux Humor @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Well, that's one way to test an identity.

  • GNU+Linux Humor @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Computer terminology and double meanings.

  • Terminal junkies be like...

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  • I suppose that would be good for emergencies or less than ideal situations, for all you "terminal junkies" out there, but... I tend to avoid the terminal in the first place, so I wouldn't really have a need for such a thing or understand what people would use it for.

  • Terminal junkies be like...

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  • That really sounds like hardware designers being very mean to programmers and terminal junkies, for sure.

    I've never really understood the appeal of having a terminal app on your phone, for this reason - I get the cool factor, Android is based on Linux so being able to get deep into things and have terminal access to stuff on your handheld device, that follows the same conventions and standards as any more traditional computer you use at home does, is neat, sure, but actually seriously using a CLI with a phone keyboard sounds very frustrating.

  • Terminal junkies be like...

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  • Tbh, I don't hate CLI utilities or MC type "terminal interface" stuff. Honestly, if they are well documented and user friendly, I sometimes actually prefer them over a complex GUI cluttered with 20 options that aren't the one thing I need. This isn't about people using/recommending well documented, simple CLI tools that make complete computer idiots like me feel powerful and really don't need a graphical frontend anyway. This is about people who insist on doing everything in a terminal window or in the TTY (and not even having a window manager installed), just for the sake of it, even when it comes to tasks where using the terminal really makes no sense.

  • Terminal junkies be like...

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  • I dunno. I still think the types of graphical tools we have today are better than a chatbot for an interface. I often struggle with explaining what I want in a way that such a tool would actually return anything useful. I might try it once or twice, but I'd probably go back to a standard graphical interface pretty quick. I'm not a "terminal junkie" or particularly technical, but I absolutely hate the idea of a computer you have to talk to like it's a person, I suck at dealing with people.

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  • Tbf, that is one thing about GUIs that certainly frustrates a lot of people. And I do quite like the concept of programs and utilities that can be used from a separate graphical interface that you only have to install if you want it, or via a command line, those are neat and an excellent example of a tool that can be used by the completely non-technical and also still provide useful functionality to power-users.

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  • Yeep. I don't need a hallucination machine between me and my computer. I hate having to use the CLI, but that's still better than a fucking chatbot getting in my way.

  • GNU+Linux Humor @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Terminal junkies be like...

  • memes @hexbear.net
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Electoralism. Pick a cat!

  • memes @hexbear.net
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    You're all a bunch of libs, I'm the only TRUE commie!

  • memes @hexbear.net
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Do we have a fire exit?

  • memes @hexbear.net
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Ah, what could have been.