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Back in the early 2010s I was sitting on a long train ride, and opened my hacker-sticker-covered netbook and started doing some terminal stuff in a console window; nothing particularly remarkable or exciting-looking, just navigating directories and moving some files around. An older lady sitting next to me glanced over, her eyes got wide, and she got up and moved to a seat further away from me.
I still think about that moment a lot.
There was a guy who got approached by a flight attendant for doing calculus on a plane. Some other passenger had reported him for doing something in Arabic, which we all know could hijack and take down the plane!
To be fair, he was almost certainly using Arabic numerals.
/s, obvs
And it looked like they were counting down!
/s
I set my terminal to black text on white when I'm in public.
I don't want to have to explain what I'm doing to an impatient functionally illiterate backwater cop.
The real question is why were you moving files with the terminal emulator?
Because that's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to do?
When im moving a lot of files or directories, i do it because i dont trust windows to not interrupt
I mean, among people that use terminals, it's very normal. Commonplace, even.
Yeah I'm a terminal noob, but feels like a file manager would be way easier to move files.
Depends on the operation. It's pretty easy in ranger or vifm.
Taking your hands off the keyboard is almost never easier.
The minuscule touchpad sucked on that netbook, making it far quicker and easier to type than smush my finger around while clicking awkwardly-placed buttons.
I used to write html, JS, and CSS on long flights and saw some side eye looks, but then Iβd have to test load the website I was working on for mom jeans and the jig was up.