Iâve posted this before but Iâm doing it again because holy shit it gets me every time.
Carl Sagan - Wanderers
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we havenât forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. The appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful gameânone of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your bandâs, or even your speciesâ might be owed to a restless fewâdrawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians. He said âI am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.â
Maybe its a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds, promising untold opportunities, beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.
Also, Iâve been watching alot of Youtube lately, and they just keep showing me ads forâŠ
ad blockers.
I have a couple of suggestions but it really depends on what you are using them for.
I have one of these
I have it with my travel cables
Cheap, Doesnât have its own power, but plugs into a powerbank, decent light for the size, and can be pointed where you like for hands free.
Unrelated, but I have one of these for travel also cheap and can be hands free, etc
I have 2 different ones of these.
One has 4xaaa batteries, or usb powered A to Barrel.
As below
The other is a newer version, rechargable battery and USB type C
No pictures, but similar to the above.
Stable base, changeable angles and lumens.
handy and light weight, good for what it is, I wouldnât call it EDC by any stretch, could travel with it, but I wouldnât personally
Cruelty disguised as âcost savingsâ has been the point for a long time with certain folks.
My weekend plansâŠ
What am I watching
An immersive VR game during a particularly foggy / smoggy sceneâŠ
In reality, its probably, either:
a. A scam
b. A scientifically unproven medicine
c. A scientifically unproven medicinal scam
What, you donât steam your eyeballs on the daily? Heathen!
Just woke up after sleeping for 15 hour
Woops
Pretty wires!
Curious. Trying it out now.
Easy enough to acquire the deb file and launch it, but itâs unclear how to use it. Canât figure out what the keyboard shortcut is for scrolling through the keyboard shortcut cheatsheet. Doesnât come with a man page. warp-terminal --help is suggested but does nothing except bug out and crash the terminal. The AI doesnât know where its own documentation is.
Ha! I thought it was funny when he kept trying to oversell the mouse support (which many terminals have) by pretending that existing terminals all force you to scroll back through your command one letter at a time with the arrow keys (no they donât, readline exists, alt+b), but, yâknow, it is a paid promotion so whatever. But⊠turns out warp doesnât even have readline! So unless I wanna dig a mouse out of my bag and plug it in every time I wanna edit a line, its inferior to standard terminal emulators in that regard.
Concerned about privacy. Licencing. Donât personally need the sharing feature. Suspicious about the generative AI model.
It doesnât seem to be an improvement over the terminals we already use, but an alternative design that removes as much functionality as it adds. Iâm suspicious that itâs just trying to harvest CLI data for its AI model (and for all the other lovely things companies like to harvest our data for), and to try to sell us the data leech theyâve packaged it up in a nice shiny new âmodernizedâ app, complete with all the âmodernâ features that âmodernâ companies like to sell to âmodernâ people, like a sluggish GUI, poor keyboard support, mouse reliance, and a magical useless word spouting machine.
In short, first impressions arenât great. Will fiddle some more, but think Iâll stick with zsh for a terminal emulator thatâs modernized in ways that actually matter.
(Sorry, didnât mean for this comment to become a full page review.)
Yeah, no, done fiddling. Uninstalled that jank.
I am trying it but itâs going to need to move a mountain for me to give up iterm
Dude should have grabbed himself a DT magnet
