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 can zoom in on it just fine with Android Firefox.
WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
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#112Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
#113Honestly curious - why do people live mostly in their terminal? Is it a productivity thing?
It is a productivity thing. CLI tools have consistent interfaces and once you are familiar with the common tools and workflow, it is considerably faster to do what you are looking to do. One particular trait that has personally made my workflow a lot faster is being able to repeat a command from history (by pressing Ctrl-R) and then writing only part of the command to run it. It saves a lot of time and makes it less…
> But perhaps the strongest selling point of working in the command line is consistency among tools
Isn't this.... not true? A lot of the *nix commands have strong consistency, yes, but there are many commands that are just designed poorly and you can't easily pipe them. And what about widely used tools like Google Docs? How could that have a consistent interface in a terminal?
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#114I've been wanting something sort of like this for my login screen. Little box for the login, of course and a whole bunch of scary-to-everyone-but-me looking output, like hollywood ( https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood ). +1 if I could use the terminal emulator of my choice so cool-retro-term ( https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term ) could make it look like the screen is about to melt.
The login screen is ultimately just a regular process. I haven't tried it but there is nothing against starting cool retro term and hollywood inside of it. The most difficult part is probably to make it display on the framebuffer. For the login itself you could then just reuse the decades old login binary that provides the login prompt you see in text mode terminals, if you like. Shouldn't be too hard.
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#115This pairs very neatly with cool-retro-term[1] :-) [1]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Someone please install this and try it and take a screenshot. I just want to see it but don't want to do it myself haha
Here you are. This is the standard config file with Euro time removed and fewer US timezones represented. I've blocked out my IP info.
The terminal size in cool-retro-term is around 30x140-ish.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
what's an example of a workflow you've automated on a terminal?
-> download 1000 files using curl, then validate their checksum, then build stuff -> take an almost-CSV report generated by one piece of software, remove a bunch of extra garbage at the top to turn it into an actual CSV file, then send the CSV file to data analysis pipeline. -> join two CSV files selecting columns 2,3 from one file and 4,5 from the other file, keyed on column 1 from both files. like excel but for CSV…
Many of these actions seem like something you'd just never do in GUI though? Except maybe some of the CSV stuff.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Familiarity and low resources needed .. I can use a $5/year natted VPS and program (via Git/Vim), run scripts, surf the web (links), chat on IRC (Weechat) and continue my Tmux/Screen workflow on basically any *nix machine with at least ~16MB memory.
why do you need to use low resources?
Natted VPS's are usually very cheap (~$5/year) are low on resources by design and are great for pure terminal workflows.
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#118Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
#119This is super cool!
Thanks!
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#120There'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?
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? And why do they disable native scrolling? Apple spent hundreds of man hours to get scrolling just right in iOS, why override the OS? You can't even scroll the page if it has a code block on it.
On most desktop browsers you should be able to right-click the image and display it in a new tab which then lets you zoom any way you want.
On Android there is a setting to always enable zoom.