“oh, you know so much! howd you do that?”
“grandma, i literally only typed dir.”
Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.
She was an absolute master at it.
mine doesnt even know how to add a custom ringtone to her phone
Do you?
My wife calls it “the app with lots of text”. She’s very beautiful.
yes thats what my music teacher calls trackers too
That’s because the default color scheme is white on black. Just change it and Poof! Blue magic, red magic, yellow magic… so many possibilities!
is the blue magic another name for the bsod
man that was the command that first got me into the terminal lol
it was also how i made a christmas tree when there was none: launch cmd, change the colors to a christmas-y palette (spefifically red on green) and run
tree. bam. christmas tree. look heres a screenshot
Batch is a very cursed shell/scripting language though
I like typing arcane runes.
Nah, that’s APL.
or uiua
One of my favorite comparisons is computing to magic. They say that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A lot of people have a hard time drawing that comparison, but if you tell them that there are very special, rare
silicarocks that you can only find in specific places on earth, and that if you inscribe one of these rocks with billions of tinytransistorsrunes and thenpowerinfuse the rock withelectricitylightning you can actuallymaketrick the rock intoa processorthinking, and that this now let’s you createsoftwareincantations which explain to theprocessorthinking rock how toexecute a programdo specific things for you, then they begin to see why.“I’m gonna pop out and get some lunch because this is going to take a while and definitely isn’t just an SSH into an Ubuntu box running apt update/upgrade in a loop.”
