Personally I found cool-retro-term lacked support for a few ANSI escape sequences I needed for tmux to work quite how I liked which prevented me using it as my daily $TERM. I’m sure with a bit of effort I could have gotten it working but it was an effort not work making when there’s literally dozens of other ${TERM}s I could use and the only thing in favour of cool-retro-term is novelty.
I do really like how cool-retro-term is an expansion of the acronym CRT. Clever project naming.
Because a typical terminal emulator doesn't make the brand new monitor they just installed look like it's broken.
So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”.
In which case they’d have a hernia if they saw the kind of workspace a typical non-poser runs.
You guessed wrong, since they're used to seeing me use iTerm all over my other monitors.
Your comment also broke the guideline that asks you not to complain about votes. If you think you see abuse on HN, email us at [email protected] instead. I looked at the data on your comments upthread and found no evidence of abuse. Everyone who voted was a long-established user.
Also being a long established user doesn’t invalidate my point about it being an alias account. It can’t be a fresh account because those don’t have the necessary karma to -ve vote
Your first comment wasn't a personal attack, but it still broke the site guidelines—for example the one that asks you to "please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Arguably also the one against snark.
I looked at the vote data, and there's no evidence whatsoever that your comment was downvoted by a voting ring. Far more likely is that it was downvoted for breaking the guidelines. Please don't do that (which btw includes not going on about downvotes).
I've been basing my behaviour on what I've watched on here before I signed up and my character is completely in line with that. You have to accept there is a serious attitude problem with many of the established members that goes unchecked because they're established members. Plus significant of abuse of peer moderation too with polite, informative and often correct posts receiving -ve karma from fanboys. Yet the newbies get hit the hardest (I'm basing that assertion on the fact that established members never get reprimanded for breaking the rules).
This place is awash with arrogant and condescending trolls - which is why I based my character on that behaviour. So even if I reel my tone in, who's going to correct the established members who comment in kind?
Instead, you should flag comments that break the guidelines and/or let us know about them at [email protected], while following them scrupulously yourself.
Re “based my character”: that’s just a cute way of saying how our online personas are caricatures of our real selves.
It freaks out the IT guys and our workspace consultants, which is a bonus.
The only downside is that on macOS it crashes on quit. But since I'm quitting it anyway, no harm done.