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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Yesterday I showed a local business owner how he could set up the signboards and menus in his shop using a raspberry pi. The guy is a windows guy. the second he saw the boot screen he balked. I told him they needed to be set up one time and the rest of the time he could manage them with a windows program (winscp). I don't expect to hear back.

    They fear CLI.

    Another local guy had a huge archive of forestry images. They were all folders that had been renamed for the location and time they were taken but underneath they were all the standard filenames you get from a digital camera. It was nearly twenty years of pictures and he was getting five figure quotes to rename them all to match the folder names. I told him I could build a script to do it so he brought me one of his backups and I promptly did it using CLI before I was going to build a script. The next day he calls to say he talked it over with one of his vendors and they decided to drop their price down to a two thousand dollars. He wasn't interesting in me doing it. I hung up and a few years later when he called me to come fix something someone had messed up I hung up again.

    I have no doubt the people he was talking to did something similar probably using bash scripts. So now when I tell someone I can sort out their file naming or some other sorting task I don't let them see how I do it.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Imo I don't memorize commands. Everything on my zsh is so aliased that I don't think I can teach someone else how to use any other cli.

    It just turned into me telling the machine what I want it to do and let it figure out how to rather than me do every little button click step.

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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    CLI is effective because every command serves a specific purpose. UIs are the opposite, you have to imagine all possible intentions the user could have at any given point and then indicate possible actions, intuitively block impossible actions, and recover from pretty much any error.

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    [–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    i dont use the terminal to be productive, i use it to feel like a hacker

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Setting the colorscheme to green on black increases hacker rating by 20%

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    courier gets you another 15%

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    Change font into hack gives another 20%

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    I would recommend Cool retro term for that, but you need to run it on a CRT to make it full.

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