Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

$ find $HOME -mtime -1w -size +100M -ls
983935 732401 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 1015803904 Sep 26 19:40 /home/arielmt/firefox.core.onegig
954267 172089 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 311705600 Sep 28 11:56 /home/arielmt/firefox.core
$

@maple I got that once, too, & IDR if it was because of curl or wget.

@monorail I have so many questions about your teacher, and I fear I know the answers to them all. :<

@monorail not to mention being off by about 2-3 decades inre cobol & other early structured languages.

I forgot that the Apple Lisa Office System did this, too, in a much more flexible way. You have to copy the blank template icon to a new file icon, rename & move the icon to where you want it to live, & *then* you can open it to start editing the document.

@zac Maybe. For several years after its adoption by major distros, among the things pulseaudio couldn't do was mix sounds from different applications, things OSS, ALSA, & ESD had been doing reliably forever. Just as with bad systemd design decisions currently, Poettering's inclination was to blame everyone & everything else for not using his code properly.

@zac Lennart Poettering, the same guy who made the Linux blight called systemd, that's what. The guy just doesn't know how to make decent programs.

I'd boost the whole thread if it wasn't bad etiquette.

@Cr0wnless Some genuinely don't even know that much. They only know what the bitter voices on their radios tell them.

I wish someone made text editors & word processors that make you name & file the files you edit first, so that they would then be auto-saved without having to think about it.

The only ones that ever did (that I'm aware of) were geoWrite & geoWrite 128, bundled with GEOS versions for the Commodore 64, the Commodore 128, & the Apple II-series.

A unique feature of freeway-bypassed cities: There are horseapples in the office complex parking lot.

Please don't leave a Commodore 64 out in the middle of a field for who knows how many decades. But if you find one that was, please don't write it off as beyond hope, either. https://youtu.be/wVphFkaX1gg

I counted & timed each at my fastest, most mistake-free.

A mistake on the CLI just needs me to use the backspace key until the wrong letters are deleted.

A mistake in the GUI means taking time to recognize that the wrong GUI choices are up, to understand why or what I mis-clicked on, to remember how to back up, & to decide whether to back up or cancel & start over.

I'm using a tool with both, but although I have to type up to 60 characters in the CLI, it takes only 5-10 seconds, & my fingers never have to leave the keyboard.

With the GUI to do the same thing, I needed to click on 34 things, each appearing in a different place I had to point at first, take my hands off the mouse to type 4 characters, then put my hand back on the mouse, taking 40-55 seconds.