Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ...
by ianai on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:36AM
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I really doubt *nix would have made it so far if the cli were audio based, too. It's a fundamentally slower and lower bandwidth communication channel.
Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ...
by zozbot234 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:23AM
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*nix was optimized for low-bandwith channels. That's why the command names and options are extremely terse and typically return trivial output on success. OTOH it was assumed that input would be reliable, so there's no confirmation required for potentially dangerous commands. A "*nix for voice" would need to address that, at the very least.
Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ...
by ianai on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:00AM
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I’d sure be lost if I had to listen to the entirety of a manpage or flesh output or /var/log/messages read out by voice. Some of those could take hours to read out. Nothing actually trivial about *nix command output. Just sometimes terse.
In the spirit of the title of this post, someone else also has to say something.
If your argument is that this is a "non-visual command line" there's slim hope of the layperson learning a whole secret grammar without even a goddamn man page just to do their menial tasks.