I'm dying for a menu system like this that lets me select items old school BBS "light bar" style.
TTE: Terminal Text Effects
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Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects
#152This is awesome. I'm like 99% sure I saw some of these effects in some of my late-80's CRPG type games :) It looks like the color gradient is per-pixel, not per-character. Would anyone have any idea how the package does that?
Barring a zoomed screenshot that shows otherwise, I'm quite certain it's per-character. Operating in true color mode is what makes the color transitions smooth enough to make the optical illusion work.
Dev here: You are correct. It's using 24-bit color ANSI escape codes.
Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects
#153Reminds me of the drip.com TSR program that I put on some of the school computers circa 1990.
Yeah in 1991 our college lab's MSDOS PC's were unsecured (unsecurable!?), so our prof quickly learned to regret teaching us how to write TSR's in ASM.
Ours had PS-2s on a token ring network with a TUI to get to the word processor etc but it also had a “drop down to DOS” option that the teachers didn’t know about.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah in 1991 our college lab's MSDOS PC's were unsecured (unsecurable!?), so our prof quickly learned to regret teaching us how to write TSR's in ASM.
Ours had PS-2s on a token ring network with a TUI to get to the word processor etc but it also had a “drop down to DOS” option that the teachers didn’t know about.
I also got in trouble for playing Leisure Suit Larry in 6th grade computer class.
Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects
#155Does this have some overlap with libcaca? cacademo and cacafire are especially impressive. Also has Python bindings. https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/tree/main [edit, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib ]
Serious lack of screenshots here.
There's quite a few around the web.
Or just do `apt-get|dnf install caca-utils`
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually am getting a VT320 soon that I hope to be able to use for my terminal at work. I'll run these over it if I remember.
It won't work. It assumes 24-bit colour support, even if you have `TERM=vt320` or something else without it.
Damn, just a programming oversight? You don't need colors to get a lot of these effects. Maybe I'll fork it.
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#157This is amazing! Please never ever use it in production.
It'd be good if it recognised https://no-color.org/ and just didn't do anything. Or maybe replaced with Maybe it does, I didn't check.
It does have a --no-color flag.
That being said, there are some environment variables that could be referenced. I'll add this one to the list for a future update.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did something similar once when something broke while I was on a plane. The plane wifi was blocking ssh (I HATE when they do this) so I opened up an existing digital ocean instance, sshed into my home computer from it via the web interface, then uploaded some large files from the home computer and did a kubectl apply. The latency was insane but luckily the file upload was fast since my home connection is fast. It w…
Smart, and not something someone would realize if they'd been too insulated from how things work. Regarding planes/cafes/guest/etc. WiFi, I now usually put any "emergency remote plumbing access" on port 443 (though usually not HTTPS), to reduce the likelihood of some random non-SPI ruleset blocking us in an emergency.
You can also proxy 443 out with ssh.
Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects
#159I did not expect this much variety and sophistication.
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#160Absolutely awesome, I've gotta figure out a use for this!