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A terminal is a physical device like a VT100. When people refer to a terminal today it’s almost always a terminal emulator running on a TTY, ssh on a PTY, a login shell or a GUI program.

Reddit claims they didn’t and don’t have to.

There is no “ackshully” and he didn’t call anyone a liar. He just said a statement was incorrect.

Thank god it isn’t people quoting posts and adding their amazing commentary such as…. “lol”

I used to use WindowMaker on seriously underpowered laptops 10-15 years ago. Seems like it’s still just as efficient. For something more standard interface-wise you could try IceWM.

Another thing to do is build your own kernel without any features you don’t use. Not sure how much of a difference that makes exactly.

There is chatroulette.

The intro is a little less proscriptive: “ Here’s the list of my favorite Linux websites. Perhaps you’ll like them too.”

I have an FB account from 2010 that I didn’t sign into for 2-3 years. I tried and they wanted me to send them my driver’s license… uh, no. Sillier thing is I have a linked instagram account I have signed into every week or two with no problems.

if he somehow turned it into a legitimized escort service, that would be actually useful to society, other than that he would be the one running it so it would be corrupt af and detrimental to society.

it’s every app in existence!! That means it will be worth every other app x 10!!

Yep, my parents have a few. Way easier than dealing with them installing windows malware constantly or having to maintain Linux for them.

When PCs started becoming fully mainstream in the late 90s, I thought “finally! people will learn to use them and not act like they’re paralyzed, computer use is nerdy, or like clicking around a GUI is terrifying!”. Alas, nope.

It’s possible to do amazing things with a CLI in seconds that would be minutes of clicking with a GUI - that’s why they still exist. And sure, it’s tuned towards people who would be “how about I write a Python program to handle this”.

Info pages, help and manuals are built into the system and commands. You don’t have to leave the shell to read anything. I’ve also explored it just by pressing a letter or two and then autocomplete. But you realize that average people need help to figure out a GUI too, right?

A car manual is more comparable to learning how to drive in the first place. And yes, sometimes I’ve consulted the manual to figure out what lights mean or how controls work.

“Guessing commands” isn’t the way to go about it. Read the man pages. Read the help for commands. Read a tutorial or some examples.

I’ve seen people too because their food came out slowly, even if it was hot then they got it… which is entirely beyond the control of the server, except if perhaps they lagged on turning in the order. Pretty lame if the place is just slammed and they end up doing twice the work for the same amount of tips.

That’s what I mean.

At least they’re telling you. There’s also a lot of hidden surveillance in stores - they’ve done it with Bluetooth and cameras for some time. Things like monitoring how long you look at products and evaluating your reactions to displays.

Sure, and instead of credit cards, the store can just write down on an index card that I owe them $60. Anyway, the idea is a level of automation exceeding what they had in Sumeria 7,000 years ago.

Some established, legitimate artists have been selling NFTs with their originals. But sure, overall, like crypto in general, the field is filled with scammers and get-rich-quick schemes.
I know someone who is a painter who for some reason decided to try selling NFTs a couple of months ago (I pointed out it was a bit late…). The only responses on opensea and Instagram she received were from scammers, trying to pull a “my payment didn’t work, you need to manually approve it” scheme to try to steal her credentials.