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Cake day: August 1st, 2026

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  • plus: most people learn graphically (visually) much easier than text-based. at least for me, it’s much easier to build an intuition of something if i get a graphical display of the contents in a directory. that’s why i always ls -alh every new directory that i enter, before i do anything else. for many people, it’s better to use GUI file explorer because you also get image previews etc. but the same concept also applies to other issues:

    like, if you want to configure various hardware on your machine, you open the settings app and get many icons that you can click on. meanwhile, on the terminal, there’s no clear list of things that you can even configure.


  • i used AI last week to modify the characters that get produced when i type special key combinations on my keyboard. after looking with classical search engines (duckduckgo, google) for about 20 minutes and getting confused with not much of a clear answer, i asked chatgpt and got the task done in 15 minutes and learned a whole lot while doing it, because it also explained exactly why the files are the way they are.


  • the issue with the terminal is that you can easily fuck up really badly if you don’t know what you’re doing.

    the following look the same to a new user:

    rcifconfig -r newdesktop -f force_gnome -l all

    rctrl -r all -i root -f

    (both are imaginary made-up comments sothat you cannot just say "oh well obviously one does this and the other one does that)

    then one goes on to nuke your home directory while the other one restarts the wifi adapter.