date: Wed 03 Jan 2024 08:44:47 AM 
subj: tty pty console text only favorite mode
auth: bbsing


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^  Why only in ncurse/curses mode?                                      ^
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After about thirty-four years of computing, and going through
all the changes its nice to not have a bunch of windows in my
face. Just nice clear text seems to be something more soothing
than graphical interfaces. I realize curses has some graphical
output but the intensity of other windows is pretty harsh after
all this time. 

Back when I started on a simple computer (C64), on to a 386sx
MSDOS system, computing was 1 single window, a single program.
It was a task to work on then once it was completed, then ...
then, and I really emphasise THEN (not a movement before), on
to the next task. Computing tasks were simple, and intentional.

Today its twenty or more windows and 10 tasks. Computing is for
computers (corp systems, data collectors), and not for people.
I think people think computing is for people, but its mostly
for data collection, or for the computer itself. People
including me operate computers more like how an operating
system does, .i.e, task switching. The IT job is not focus
compatible. 


f-ing streams of revenue' this is the modern world of
computing, nothing more than streams of revenue for the only
purpose of gobbling up digital representations of money objects
quantified, scrutinized, homogenized, for consumption to
produce coins. Its all pretty silly. I would love to see a
truly free computer system out there somewhere for only the
proof that it is completely free. I can't even think how that
is possible to this day. 

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^  In my daily work in IT I have no choice to be in curses mode         ^
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*  After all these years of sitting at the desk looking at the          *
*  screen, as time moves faster and faster, one day I looked in         *
*  the mirror, and saw my hair is grey, my face sags, my muscles        *
*  have shrank, and I'm my life is well past noon, there is             *
*  nothing in the world that can be seen for which my work has          *
*  shown. Lately and often I wonder if I can carry on with IT and       *
*  the constant training required. The magic seems gone now.            *
*  Computing will age a person more than they know.                     *
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