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Tech: Want to pay for our AI?
Us: No, we already have it covered by another provider.
Tech: Oh, let's integrate it then and give you a all 30% price hike.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Jan 13

Love that rule, helps me calm down so often.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Jan 13

Highly recommend reading, "Mistakes where made, but not by me"

It talks about how things go wrong not because a big evil plan, but because people are well, people.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 30

I think it boils down to, who gets to use the keystroke. The local program (terminal app) or the remote program (Whatever you're running in a shell)

That said, asking the right questions. I like the CLI because it gets me close to the inner workings of a computer.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 29

As for copy and paste, I'll just join you in hating the implementation. It's usually on the mouse, so right click to copy selected text and middle click to paste text.

I'm used to it, but that's just 2 decades of Linux usage

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 29

So terminal is dumb, by design and if you want things like shift+enter you need to fix that at the remote machine. (Hint if you type \ and then enter on the command line you get the same result)

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 29

While one example, it shows the main issue that makes a terminal "special" it needs to send ALL keyboard combo's, like shift+enter, Win+V, etc...

Same issue you have with remote desktop, what buttons are local, what are remote.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 29

For CMD+C I think it might be related to how things are in the non-mac world where CTRL+C is copy, but in a terminal CTRL+C is break command. In this conflict the latter will win because shell commands are what a terminal is all about.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 29

One of the main reasons is that all shells and CLI apps assume the terminal will behave like this. So if you make the terminal app smarter then you might break things on the other side, this causes a chicken/egg issue that's the main reason terminals stay simple.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 29

That's a bit of a history lesson, as most things in Unix. Terminals still act like it's 1980s in that they only transfer text up and down. Except now we have 1GB high speed world wide internet and back then it was a super slow local serial cable. But you know, why not improve on that?

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 29

Define editor for me, if you mean when typing commands that's not the terminals job but the shell. A terminal doesn't have access to a lot of the information for cool things like tab completion.

You can try the fc command in Linux, that will open the last command in an editor.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 27

Going through my tasklist today by being as ruthless as the popular kids in high school. A lot of them won't get to hang around me any longer.

Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 26

Racing to get everything organised before my hyperfocus on 3d Printing wears out.

I mostly started this so my adhd brain stops losing everything. 😅

Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 26

When everything has it's place, it's easier to keep things tidy. Things without a real home take more brain power then we realize.

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Joost van Dongen @joostvandongen.bsky.social · Dec 23

Our relaxing train construction game Station to Station is now on sale on Steam! 60% off, now is an excellent time to try our beautiful chill railroad builder!

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 25

Didn't realize that it was Dutch made. (Thanks for the repost @leeuwenhart.bsky.social)

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 20

Today I'm getting my first 3D printer, picked Prusa because I like the idea of open source and getting things for the long haul.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 20

We used to have tear-off hotbars, not sure why they disappeared. This is from Delphi, notice the ridge on the left of the bar. Then again it was too clunky for your suggested use case I'm afraid.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · Dec 14

This post seems broken, is the link working for others?

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