For those who don’t know the image source, it’s from Kung Fury, a short comedy (half hour) on youtube. Fully recommend for over the top parody of bad 80s action movies.
When I use the CLI to launch an application it’s because it’s crashing
What do you mean bad 80s action movies?
I also dont know what that means. They are all epic.
it’s from Kung Fury,
Well that explains the dinosaurs
It’s the power glove that really gets me. It’s so bad.
I put an optical drive in my PC recently, and I’ve been giggling like an idiot typing “eject” and “eject -t” into the terminal. Terminal commands that do something physical in the world delight me.
It feels magical to run systemctl shutdown now to my laptop through SSH and seeing my laptop turn off without touching it
Our AVR (audio video receiver, aka home theater amplifier) can be turned on via home assistant.
Felt magical the first time I turned it on by clicking a button.
I have to reconnect mine because I was just shipped a CD with a song on it I can’t find online anywhere…
I haven’t had a computer with a built-in SATA optical drive in years, just the crappy off-brand old recycled laptop drive in a random housing ones you get these days that require a good USB A-MicroB cable, and good luck finding one of those. Having a proper built-in drive is nice enough that I actually want to use it.
So I was playing with some of my old CDs, and noticed that my copy of Slippery When Wet is two-sided. Bwuh?! CDs aren’t two-sided, that’s a DVD thing. Sure enough, the “back” is a DVD that has the four music videos they made for the album, and two more copies of the music, one in “even better than Redbook Audio Somehow” stereo, and one in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound that has been lengthened, mostly just additional studio chatter before and after the tracks but one of the songs, I think it’s Raise Your Hands, has a lengthened bridge or something?
So I learned how to rip FLACs from a DVD!
Weird Al’s Poodle Hat has a .mov file on it.
Had a big ol time partying like it was 2004.
Which you’re going to rip as .flac and .mp3 and share/upload somewhere for preservation, right?
Put it on Soulseek once you rip it please! Others are likely looking as well!
Every so often I have to buy a DVD because it isn’t available online anywhere, and I always try to upload it somewhere as a community service when I do lol.
Saving lost media from getting lost is a very honourable activity and a Service for humanity.
More people have to realise
Pirates save our culture
Lost doctor who episodes are a great example
I remember the feeling when I first used a GUI to “run” a “program” instead of using an interpreter. It felt like a pain in the ass.
Nothing that
xdotoolcan’t fix
I don’t use the termulator for opening apps that can bepened through GUI simply because the termulator has to stay open and that clutters the taskbar.
bro doesn’t know about
&elaborate
Idk I don’t know about
&either (I know&&but I’m guessing it’s different), but you can ctrl+z it, then usebgto run it in the background, thendisownto divorce it from the terminal.I’ll try
firefox &when I get home and see what happens though, I’m assuming that’s what he meant.I tried & and it lets you continue sending commands into the terminal. Typing firefox & and then disown and closing the terminal yields the same result as opening firefox through the GUI.
Dude awesome! Good to know, thanks!
info bash
Is that a Nintendo power glove?
If anyone’s curious as to whether this scene was considered cringy when the movie came out, yes. Yes, it was.
When you’re going up against Adolf Hitler and need to travel back in time, it’s the right equipment for the job.
You mean the Kung Führer?
Adolf Hitler? Ive heard of that guy!
I thought a bazooka was the preferred weapon for that.
It’s so bad.
Yeah, badass.
I’m going to refer you to a wizard
Yup!
I’m so old that when I started there wasn’t any choice. It was command line or go outside!
I started working as a professional programmer in 1995. From the outset, I was pitching to clients how a GUI (thanks, Visual Basic 3!) would be so much easier for their employees to use than a command prompt. I find it very interesting how command prompts are still around 30 years later. I’m way more amazed by the continued existence of vinyl LPs, however.
I’m not that old but old enough that if we wanted to play Keen or Secret Agent Sam or Cosmo we had to boot into MS-DOS mode and run it from a floppy drive. Don’t remember if it was Win 95 or 98.
LOADM "CASHMAN" EXEC
DANGER: HACKING TOO MUCH TIME
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More like, the app complains about not being able to find the window manager due to some environment variables missing in the shell env, and refuses to launch.
Do you even export DISPLAY, bro?!??
me at the ripe age of 12 discovering i could type
firefoxand it would open firefoxso uhm i use a window manager now
dos
shutdown -h now
This guy looks like the villain from despicable me 3
He is actually the greatest hacker of all time
God I forgot about that movie … and the most glorious song of all time
