For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we havenāt 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 gameānone 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 bandās, or even your speciesā might be owed to a restless fewādrawn, 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 āI am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.ā
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.
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, Doesnāt have its own power, but plugs into a powerbank, decent light for the size, and can be pointed where you like for hands free.
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 wouldnāt call it EDC by any stretch, could travel with it, but I wouldnāt personally
Easy enough to acquire the deb file and launch it, but itās unclear how to use it. Canāt figure out what the keyboard shortcut is for scrolling through the keyboard shortcut cheatsheet. Doesnāt come with a man page. warp-terminal --help is suggested but does nothing except bug out and crash the terminal. The AI doesnāt 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 donāt, readline exists, alt+b), but, yāknow, it is a paid promotion so whatever. Butā¦ turns out warp doesnāt 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. Donāt personally need the sharing feature. Suspicious about the generative AI model.
It doesnāt seem to be an improvement over the terminals we already use, but an alternative design that removes as much functionality as it adds. Iām suspicious that itās 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 theyāve packaged it up in a nice shiny new āmodernizedā app, complete with all the āmodernā features that āmodernā companies like to sell to āmodernā people, like a sluggish GUI, poor keyboard support, mouse reliance, and a magical useless word spouting machine.
In short, first impressions arenāt great. Will fiddle some more, but think Iāll stick with zsh for a terminal emulator thatās modernized in ways that actually matter.
(Sorry, didnāt mean for this comment to become a full page review.)
