“How you doing, Dixie?”

“I’m dead, Case. Got enough time in on this Hosaka to figure that one.”

“How’s it feel?”

“It doesn’t.”

“Bother you?”

“What bothers me is, nothin’ does.”

“How’s that?”

“Had me this buddy in the Russian camp, Siberia, his thumb was frostbit. Medics came by and they cut it off. Month later he’s tossin’ all night. Elroy, I said, what’s eatin’ you? Goddam thumb’s itchin’, he says. So I told him, scratch it. McCoy, he says, it’s the other goddam thumb.” When the construct laughed, it came through as something else, not laughter, but a stab of cold down Case’s spine. “Do me a favor, boy.”

“What’s that, Dix?”

“This scam of yours, when it’s over, you erase this goddam thing.”

There is a naan zero chance that I will try it out.

This could be paraphrased as “GUI for the GUI settings, non-GUI for the non-GUI settings.” It’s not surprising to me that parts of Linux that run on systems that don’t have GUIs do not have GUI settings. I understand the frustration, but building those is more work, and more things that can break, go out of date, etc…

What if Linux presented its config files in an app like regedit? Would that be easier? I doubt it. But with complicated data structures, making a first-class app just to edit a specific text file or set of files on disk is a very low ROI for engineering hours.

The drill have started to move.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'esprit_de_l'escalier

L’esprit de l’escalier or l’esprit d’escalier …  ‘staircase wit’ is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late.

Realizing that you are doing this is on the path to enlightenment.

We played the hell out of q3 starting with beta because it ran on Linux, macOS classic and windows, and my crew had all those. Riva tnt, g3 tower, amd k6-2, 10-base-T hub.

It’s funny and ironic that you have 10 downvotes but only two replies.

Anyhow I think this is it, but at the same time I do agree with others here that a reply to a downvoted comment promotes community, resilience, and hopefully empathy. But there’s no way it’s going to happen all the time. When it does, it’s great, and when it doesn’t, we shouldn’t be offended.

You don’t even know if the downvotes are coming from an actual human, so a few downvotes shouldn’t make a difference. I realize this isn’t the exact case that the OP is describing though.

This is so asinine I literally loled.

Which is really unexpected if you’re looking at an oil lamp.

I was going to respond that those are both wrappers to ssh, but thought I’d verify first, and TIL “Paramiko is a pure-Python [1] (3.6+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol [2]”

Meanwhile me with a Bluetooth speaker and my phone’s built in ambient noise feature.

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