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.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I never noticed but it feels like that’s “Cool Retro Term (CRT)” running that amber interface in the background there.

    I’d be willing to guess it, anyway. :D

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    331·
    22 hours ago

    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.

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
      2·
      6 hours ago

      It feels magical to run systemctl shutdown now to my laptop through SSH and seeing my laptop turn off without touching it

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I’ve also been getting a kick out of my new 3D printer and controlling it remotely. Even though if I hit the X+10mm button and that message has to go to Prague and back before the Nextruder nudges to the right.

      • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 hours ago

        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.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        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.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        14 hours ago

        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.

        • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          10 hours ago

          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

  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    81·
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      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.

    • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      15 hours ago

      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.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    15 hours ago

    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.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 day ago

    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.