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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#81

Honestly curious - why do people live mostly in their terminal? Is it a productivity thing?

In my experience, it is easier to automate a workflow using command line applications. The GUI versions of tools have to try and predict every possible workflow, while terminal applications can be easily combined in scripts.

That being said, there are definitely major productivity features to be had with GUIs, such as those with web browsers and IDEs.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#82

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

I do not know but I encountered this more often than not. Direct links to images are a rare occurrence in my experience. I usually just right click on the image, then click on "Open Image in New Tab" which will get me what I want. Off-topic but: was it not Google that tried to work around this so one could not do even this in the search results?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-image/ I installed this to work around it.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#83

Honestly curious - why do people live mostly in their terminal? Is it a productivity thing?

That's one reason; familiarity is another.

Depending on when and how a person started out with computers, there may have been no GUI available. My university was just getting connected to the internet about a year or so before the the web came into being. I picked up a VT125 terminal and a 1200 baud modem from ham radio flea markets, and used that setup over dialup for a couple years. No GUI, all text; programming assignments, email, web in a text browser when that was a thing, NNTP.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#85

Honestly curious - why do people live mostly in their terminal? Is it a productivity thing?

I have RSI in my mouse hand from pointing and clicking so much and basically my index and middle finger are constantly inflamed. The only thing that makes the swelling go down is icing, ibuprofen, and not using a mouse.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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I am on Linux on Firefox and I can zoom... Ctrl + scrollwheel. Or am I missing something?

I've always understood user-scalable="no" to apply only to mobile/touch devices and their pinch-to-zoom functionality. I can't remember an instance where Ctrl + scrollwheel and Ctrl + -/+/0 didn't work on desktop browsers.

I even disable that on Firefox Mobile cause I hate not being able to just Zoom. Don't assume it looks perfect for me without my consent.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#88

Honestly curious - why do people live mostly in their terminal? Is it a productivity thing?

I have RSI in my mouse hand from pointing and clicking so much and basically my index and middle finger are constantly inflamed. The only thing that makes the swelling go down is icing, ibuprofen, and not using a mouse.

I know product manager that uses a pen & touchpad to navigate websites for exactly this reason

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because Safari disregards this option, as it is hostile towards users.

The site does mess up inertial scrolling on iOS Safari though.

Thanks for this comment. I think you might have just solved issue #33 in the wtfdocs repo.
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