Designer should remove his neckbeard in shame.
Just roll up and open hackertyper.net in fullscreen. “This is going to be a bigger problem than I thought…”
Thanks for this…
Then after five minutes of furious typing you say …
I’M IN
I see this almost every week
The terminal feels like such a haven for me, for its responsiveness. Windows gets slower and slower with each update. Even my Linux DEs are slow now because I’m hardware poor. The terminal is the only app that stays ahead of my typing.
Oof. That must be a single core laptop from 2010 or something, which if true, that sucks.
I have a 13 year old computer around here that had no problems with LMDE6 when last I fired it up. It was relatively high spec when new which takes some of the edge off, but I never had an input lag problem anywhere except maybe badly-written websites.
Just how limited is your computer?
“How slow is it?” My desktop is so slow, it comes with a prompt that says ‘Execute now to guarantee completion before Christmas.’
have you not used windows 11?
file explorer now takes half a second to open a subfolder, more if within a OneDrive directory. I went back to Win10 because of that. it literally broke my workflow and prevented me from being able to do my job effectively
I wasn’t the only one at the company that saw this behavior either
I haven’t used Windows in earnest since Win 7. No wonder they want to force people to upgrade to new hardware.
I’m on a $4000 computer from 2024 lol, with an NVME SSD. it ain’t the hardware that’s the issue in my case
but yeah, windows runs like shit now. everything is slow. there’s bloatware. nothing just works anymore (not that it all just worked in the past, but at least some of it did)
even fucking notepad has started crashing on me sometimes
Yeah. I have a 2011 Macbook Pro with a dual core i7 running Arch and Plasma, and while it’s obviously nowhere near as quick as my M2 Macbook Air, it’s still a perfectly respectable machine. Last week I also put Arch on a ThinkPad T410 with a dual core i5. I wouldn’t want it as my main computer, but it chugs along ok.
I am liking mainly because of the stereotype reversal ngl.
Someone replacing the ejecting coffee holder is pinnacle hacker spotting…
I had a friend who wasn’t very technical who had some issue where he couldn’t boot into his OS (Windows) and bought a new computer, but wanted the files off the old computer. So he asked me for help. I remember bringing a Knoppix live CD (remember Knoppix?) And when I was there, I realized I had a severe lack of general networking equipment. (I didn’t have a switch, so I couldn’t plug both computers into the network so they could communicate with each other and the internet.)
So I started up the old computer in Knoppix, plugged it into the network, and installed a bunch of networking packages like a DHCP server and such. And then I used the Ethernet cable to plug the two computers into each other, letting the Knoppix box give the new Windows machine its IP. And then I installed Putty on the Windows machine and used it to SCP the files from the old machine to the new one.
The whole thing went way smoother than I’d have expected, never having attempted that before. But I felt like such a hacker that day. Lol.
I remember going through tech school 20 years ago and them telling you you need a crossover cable with you at all times for just this type of situation. I think in the 20 years I have used one once.
NICS have had auto crossover detection built-in for like 20 years now too.
Apple used to have a function in macs with FireWire, where if you had T pressed down on the keyboard while booting, the computer booted into a mode where you could use it as a FireWire external hard drive. An insanely useful feature, for migrating files off old machines, installing OS onto a machine without a functional optical drive, quickly stealing your friend’s hard drive contents etc.
It’s a shame it didn’t really take off as a more common feature. It would be a useful feature in so many situations, nowadays the closest I can get to it is a custom USB stick with a linux distro that tries to discover all volumes and expose them as network drives, but it’s a lot more complicated to use than just having something you plug in and it simply works. I’d love it if they did a similar thing with thunderbolt, but as far as I know it’s no longer an option.
I think they still do that with Thunderbolt.
I’m a designer, I don’t know a single designer - from school or work - who doesn’t know what the terminal is. Sure I don’t really know how to use it but that’s because I grew up on Win 7 and later, where GUIs ruled. Most designers are pretty tech literate, it’s half the difference between us and fine arts folk.
I - no kung fu.
Last year, I was trying (and failing) to explain the basics of a file system to a designer that was designing a web app version of a fucking file system.
if you run a policy update from the command line its like fairy dust on the real fix you just did. sometimes people straight up will not accept that a problem is solved until the little black box does the hacker magic
Joke aside…
Who has not reached that “just say yes so they shut up”-point with some people?
I find the terminal very quiet and cozy collage to desktop apps.
I have probably an unhealthy amount of nvim and tmux shortcuts.
This happend to me just yesterday. I pulled up a terminal with python to use it as a basic calculator (don’t judging, I was just adding numbers) and my class mate looks over and thinks I’m some kind of hacker for that
It is genuinely shocking how computer illiterate marketing people tend to be.
Well, I dont want to lie for a salary, so im also bad at marketing.
There’s a reason they have marketing jobs.
They are good at social manipulation and compartmentalization.
The programmers are similarly morally bankrupt, as they’re implementing the enshitification of the worst people, the business people who make the shitty decisions both implement.
Programmers can also create non-enshittified solutions in their off time and release it publicly for free and many do. What good can a marketer do for the world?
Fucking nothing. Marketing is just another word for propaganda. Fuck em.
Programmers can also create non-enshittified solutions in their off time and release it publicly for free and many do.
It’s a nice idea, but what that ultimately boils down to, is horrible to use programs with barely any support because people (reasonably) don’t have the time or support to give them the full beans.
They also result in programs that are basically only made for their users, and that, to everyone else are some weird esoteric programs with outlandish UX.
Like I like open source as much as the next guy, but open source software is not fixing the enshitification of society, especially as devices take away more and more user autonomy. These are bandaid solutions that allow the power users most equipped to make arguments against the hostile enshitification takeover to bury their heads in the sand as they scurry to stay alive, squeezing between the cracks, increasingly having to give up in more and more areas as solutions take more and more focus to keep alive.
Also, more than that, how many programmers actually are doing this? I’d say it’s a rare occurrence.
What good can a marketer do for the world?
Activism. They communicate and convince people, so activism is an area where they could help the world if they so chose.
I must disagree with you there. I get more support from the open source community and their things than I do from commercial stuff. Commercial pretends to offer support that isn’t actually there in 2025. They just have call centers that tell you to reboot and then escalate, which basically turns into stalling until you figure it out yourself.
When was the last time you got support for a Google product? What about Microsoft? Apple? Apple used to have decent support but it’s all the same offshored nonsense that the others have now. Hearing “I don’t know” in an Indian accent isn’t support. Microsoft is the worst of the bunch. They have an entire industry set up with people saying you can get support in their ecosystem but it’s all third parties pointing at eachother and no one taking any responsibility.
If it makes you feel better (read worse) my company buys around 500,000 chips a year, and we’re still effectively in the same support tier as an individual user.
I’ve pushed for chips with upstream Linux kernel support, even though they’re more expensive, because it’s so bad with proprietary software
Might want to point out doing so now will insulate your company from the shock of being forced to migrate down the road. The entire industry is throwing money into AI in the foreground, while in the background they are preparing their transition away once it explodes and takes titans down.
Everyone outside the US is moving away from the proprietary model.
