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   prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 20:54:10 JST prettygood
   I've never met anyone who gets really uppity about their shell configuration that actually does real work with it. Its always "ricing" and neofetch/fastfetch wankers. And maybe Nix users. People who actually touch keyboard for a living just use bash. Feel free to anecdote me, just my experience.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 20:57:00 JST 翠星石

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     @hakui @prettygood I don't go ricing - I just have a shared configuration and then neofetch to make it easier to remember which computer I'm on.
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 20:57:01 JST 御園はくい

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     @prettygood nice suiseiseki subpost
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     scarecrow (scarecrow@whinge.town)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:01:20 JST scarecrow

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     @prettygood excuse me zsh is default shell on macos now
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:01:20 JST prettygood

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     @scarecrow I know plenty of devs who use macs but they actively avoid typing anything if you know what I mean
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:02:06 JST prettygood

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     @hakui actually I was subposting fiore
     
     I take sui's side when it comes to bash being superior
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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:02:09 JST φ

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     @prettygood eh fair . ive moved to zsh because idk it has two plugins i rlly like for vi mode and syntax highlighting . but i dont rlly do “ricing” or any of that , idont use any “package managers” (weird concept ina shell) . i just sort of dislike bash , its defaults , and its weird builtin behaviours

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:02:47 JST prettygood

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     @Suiseiseki @hakui I just have a little text motd to ID the machine
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:06:51 JST prettygood

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     @eric better how? Basically every CLI program I use has bash completion
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     Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1 (eric@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:06:52 JST Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1

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     @prettygood zsh has better auto completion and you can make it do syntax highlighting
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:08:51 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     @prettygood theres some stiff i wanna cut out from the ricing stage of my life lol
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:13:58 JST 翠星石

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     @eric @prettygood >He has a weak mind and needs everything show and completed for him.
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     Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1 (eric@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:13:59 JST Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1

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     @prettygood i do not have my computer with me rn but this is how it would look, this is a stock zsh feature and you don't need any plugins or scripts for this
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:19:17 JST 翠星石

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     @phnt @eric @prettygood What is that junk on the screen? Tab complete works fine and doesn't mess up the current terminal output.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:19:18 JST Phantasm

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     @prettygood @eric Behold, actually usable file completion where you can choose the file instead. Same with CLI tools that have zsh-completions.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:40:55 JST Phantasm

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     @Suiseiseki @eric @prettygood
     >Tab complete works fine and doesn't mess up the current terminal output.
     It doesn't in bash. It only gives you the all possible options for tab complete while you have to type the differences out until there's only one option. Only then it auto-completes it completely.
     
     At first it seems weird, but once you get used to it, it's impossible to get rid of it. Just like remapping Caps Lock to Escape.
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     scarecrow (scarecrow@whinge.town)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:10:00 JST scarecrow

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     @phnt @eric @prettygood i never turn that on, maybe i should enable it, looks nifty
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:11:25 JST prettygood

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     @phnt @Suiseiseki @eric >mapping capslock to escape
     
     Never have, never will. 40 years of muscle memory swatting at the escape key can't be overcome.
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:11:39 JST 御園はくい

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     @prettygood sure but you just /use/ it instead of evangelicizing it everywhere
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     :thonk: (p@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:15:32 JST :thonk:

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     PS1='\[\e[32m\]┌── \[\e[38;5;46;1m\]\w\[\e[0;32m\] [\[\e[32m\]$?\[\e[32m\]]\n\[\e[32m\]╰─\[\e[94;1m\]\$\[\e[0m\] '

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:16:06 JST prettygood

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     @p I never liked two-line PS1 setups, always felt clunky to me. Monitors are badly shaped these days and vertical space is at a premium.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:26:06 JST prettygood

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     @phnt @Suiseiseki @eric I got no hate for emacs users, its the same with bash, I don't have to re-learn something else because any system is going to have vi and I can get by.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:26:07 JST Phantasm

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     @prettygood @Suiseiseki @eric Inferior vim user smh
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:28:08 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @prettygood @phnt @Suiseiseki @eric >not using ed
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:37:53 JST sapphire

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     @prettygood um actually i just use zsh (macOS default)
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     @prettygood @phnt @Suiseiseki @eric You mean incorrect...
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:45:17 JST prettygood

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     @dcc @phnt @Suiseiseki @eric correct.
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     Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1 (eric@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 00:45:10 JST Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1

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     @prettygood here you go
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     lemon (speckledlemon@urusai.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 03:18:28 JST lemon

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     @prettygood You might be mixing “uppity” with “parading their shit around”. I definitely want (not need) my shell to look/feel/behave a certain way but that’s one way, not /the/ way. I wager it’s those who are terminally (no pun intended) in argumentation mode you’re seeing, simply because they’re the loudest. Pretty much everyone I’ve ever worked with has had a modified terminal, maybe only lightly.

     Or maybe not; the best developers (not sysadmins) I’ve worked with, coincidentally, have had no modifications at all.

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 03:18:44 JST prettygood

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     @speckledlemon I wrote a basic bashrc like 10 years ago and I've maybe added a couple of functions to it over the past few years, an alias here and there, and just run with it on every machine forever.
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     Sparkler (sparkler@mastodon.is-a.horse)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 03:22:32 JST Sparkler

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     @prettygood I'm with you. I don't touch my shells anymore. If I'm logging into 100 different systems, I don't have time to configure shells on every single one of them. Better to just keep it default and work with it.

     Except for ksh. Fuck ksh.

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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:04:00 JST waifu

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer Big bash keeps us down by not being able to rice our terminals at work

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:04:20 JST prettygood

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     @waifu good
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:07:57 JST waifu

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer as an anecdote, I have setup my vscode with libbie at my previous work but i got lazy and don't even change the theme now

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     hispanicweeb@mai.waifuism.life's status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:08:55 JST hispanicweeb

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     @waifu @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer ricemy autism makes me think about 🍚 and not about customization

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:09:52 JST prettygood

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     @hispanicweeb @waifu yeah the term originally was for "racing inspired cosmetic enhancements" but computer touchers stole the word from car touchers and here we are.
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:10:59 JST waifu

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer yeah man i even had a little wafumelon on the bottom of the thing spinning around lol

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:11:00 JST prettygood

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     @waifu I'm an f-slur for JetBrains applications but I don't go trying to theme them, that sounds terrifying
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     sicp (sicp@freebeerextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:24:40 JST sicp

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     @prettygood yeah bash is the default on slackware so I use that. there's an obvious correlation that all the lusers I know who use thier computer for real work are on slackware. It's a no brainer
     I treat my computer like a workhorse. it's foremost a tool, and if it doesn't do what I want then I beat it into submission. You don't see carpenters worshipping mallets and chisels
     The shell is also just a really shitty interface. I'd rather use emacs
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     hispanicweeb@mai.waifuism.life's status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:26:26 JST hispanicweeb

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer @waifu@mai.waifuism.life computer touchers
     car touchersmechanophiles be like: :frierensmug:

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     @sicp @prettygood >emacs
     Listen i like the keybinds, dats about it.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 05:29:22 JST prettygood

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     @dcc @sicp I like c-w, c-e, c-a and that's about it
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 19:33:27 JST 翠星石

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     @dcc @phnt @eric @prettygood I agree ed is suitable too.
     
     ed --version
     GNU ed 1.22.2
     Copyright (C) 1994 Andrew L. Moore.
     Copyright (C) 2025 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
     License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
     This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
     There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 22:29:21 JST φ

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     @eric @prettygood powerline prompts are so disgustingly bad

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