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  • Mr. TeatimeMr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
    Oct 13, 2026, 6:55 AM

    @fribbledom
    I keep being amazed by terminals that use fancy UTF characters, colours and whatnot to create graphic features when you could just as well render just any old shape in the same place.

    Unless something actually needs to be able to run outside of a desktop environment (which, alright, is needed for a fair number of things), I don't really see the benefit.

    I'm still waiting for a proper graphical code/equation editor where comments happen in the margins and can be threaded and contain figures, where I can zoom out to see methods and classes as little boxes with connectors, arranged in a way that makes the relations between them more obvious, and I can rearrange and refactor them by drag & drop.

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  • Jonathan Lamotheme@social.jlamothe.net
    Oct 14, 2026, 4:52 AM

    @Mr_Teatime @fribbledom I do a surprising amount of computing over an SSH connection with no X11 or Wayland system on my end. If it can't be run through a CLI or TUI, I can't use it.

    ...technically I can do VNC, but it's a pain in the ass and requires way more bandwidth than it ought to.

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  • Mr. TeatimeMr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
    Oct 14, 2026, 9:16 PM

    @me
    No objection. I have to use the non-graphical ttys on my machines so often it's a bit embarrassing (RAM full, desktop locked up ...), so yes, I do appreciate a good shell.
    @fribbledom

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