Want to learn some cool things to do in your terminal? Of course you do! (I mean, you are on gopher after all!) Know anything I should? Send me an email at sndr@tilde.team ______________________________________________________________________ Star Wars! You probably know this one $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl This will allow you to see the whole of Star Wars Episode IV. In ascii art. wonderful stuff! ______________________________________________________________________ Weather Easy enough to do, but you need finger. Most hosts already have it. $ finger <city name>@graph.no. for help, just "finger @graph.no". (HTM) You can read more at op.no ______________________________________________________________________ Termbin.com Ever needed to share text from your terminal? Termbin to the rescue! Just redirect your output to "nc termbin.com 9999" for example: $ echo "Testing termbin!" | nc termbin.com 9999 This will give you a nice URL you can use to share with your friends. Be wary though; make sure you never push keys or passwords. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenStreetMap in your terminal Ever been to lazy to open a browser to check a map? Who am I kidding, of course you have! Well, worry no more. $ telnet mapscii.me Use arrow keys to move around, and A/Z to zoom. Or use the mouse if you want to be fancy ______________________________________________________________________ Figlet Ever want to make a certain bit of text *REALLY* clear? Figlet is for you! It even has lots of fonts you can see with 'showfigfonts' $ figlet -w 60 Bit of text... ____ _ _ __ _ _ | __ )(_) |_ ___ / _| | |_ _____ _| |_ | _ \| | __| / _ \| |_ | __/ _ \ \/ / __| | |_) | | |_ | (_) | _| | || __/> <| |_ _ _ _ |____/|_|\__| \___/|_| \__\___/_/\_\\__(_|_|_) It even has lots of fonts you can see with 'showfigfonts'. ____________________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/3.0.1 on Ubuntu/22.04 x86_64