So, as has been made clear both by myself and by others responding, there are tasks for which a GUI is absolutely essential, and tasks for which it is optional, and tasks for which it is actually sub-optimal. This is perfectly normal, as far as I'm concerned. The question of which is "better" is a nonsensical question -- there is only "better for what". So let's say you had to live without GUI programs for a year. Not that you or I will be doing this, but game it out with me. You can still technically have a GUI, as you can use X/Wayland, your choice of window manager, and your choice of terminal emulator, but all your actual applications must run in the terminal emulator. Can you survive?

Shit just worked better when you used a text editor for 99% of the things you did on a computer.

Seriously? $300 for a console, no games included? Not even a copy of Gunhed or Bonk?

This is what we should be building.

LLM-user-to-fascist pipeline: Is this a thing?

There's a drugs metaphor to be made between the faux-patriotism of the right, and fucking bath salts. Something about how both are synthetic, motivated purely by capitalism, and extremely toxic.

What galls me most, honestly, is the lack of actual resistance.

The worst part of growing up isn't knowing you're going to die someday. The worst part is knowing that all the progress of your lifetime will be undone unless someone steps up to defend it, and maybe even then.

Whenever someone asks me what radicalized me, I just want to ask what made them so numb to the world that they haven't been yet.

This local pair of feet is giving away a LaserJet 4. I have no room for it, and a great laser printer already. Pity.