“Everything is a file” is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.

Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.

  • Janet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    it’s all fun and games until you want to use your mouse and keyboard inputs on another machine and also view the other machines screen contents. then all of a sudden stuff stops being a file. quaint.

    if only there was a way to share resources over a network…

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        2 hours ago

        What do you mean? This

        remoteuser@server$ nc -l -p 4444 > /dev/input/event0
        
        
        localuser@laptop$ cat /dev/input/event0 | nc server 4444
        

        doesn’t work?