i use arch btw

Congratulations on perhaps the highest effort shitpost I have ever seen.

I've never actually lol'ed at a Linux meme until today.

FONT: REMINGTON
CPU: NONE
GPU: NONE
MEMORY: 0B / 0B

🤣🤣🤣

Very impressive network latency. Usually when people send messages with these they have to wait weeks for a reply.

Well, interoffice memos.
- Interoffice memes sound more enjoyable

Yeah, but can it play Doom?

Can anything not play Doom?
- Yes, it is I
https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii
The frame rate may be somewhat limited, but dealing with that is really just a skill issue.
You can crack a cacodemon over the noggin with it.

People actually used to use a bunch of solenoids to turn typewriters into printers back when printers were very expensive.

i use arch

looks inside

noarch

put this straight on !unixporn@lemmy.world

Alright

Terminal emulators are bloat, real arch users use the real teletype (tty) as intended lol

Terminal emulators are bloat
The Linux kernel itself contains a terminal emulator --- that's how you can swap among virtual terminals on the console --- and unless the code was rewritten at some point, that's really the true core of Linux; the Linux kernel originally was a terminal emulator, before the other stuff got added. Before Linus even made his first announcement, when it was still a purely one-man project that he was banging on:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-very-first-interview-about-linux
The very first interview about Linux with Linus Torvalds - Oct 28, 1992
LN: Please give a short summary of the history of Linux.
Linus: Difficult. "Linux" didn't really exist until about August-91 - before that what I had was essentially just a very basic protected mode system that had evolved from a glorified "Hello world" program into a even more glorified terminal emulator. Linux stopped for quite a while at the terminal emulator stage: I played around with Minix, and used my protected mode program to read news from the univerity machine. No down/upload, but it did a fair vt100 emulation, and did it by using two tasks which communicated from keybodard->modem and modem->screen.
By mid-summer -91, "Linux" was able to read the disk (joyful moment), and eventually had a small and stupid disk driver and a simple buffer cache. So I started out trying to make a filesystem, and used the Minix fs for simple practical reasons: that way I already had a file layout I could test things on. After some more programming (talk about glossing things over), I had a very simple UNIX that had some of the basic functionalities of the real thing: I could run small test-programs under it.
That being said, I think that most people are probably using the framebuffer console these days --- you aren't usually talking to your graphics card in text mode on x86-64 machines, but rather in graphics mode, and an image of text is being rendered and handed to the graphics card, and I don't know if internally, the original virtual terminal code is used beneath that or if there's a different stack and two independent in-kernel virtual terminal emulators.
- Well, if you have one of those new fangled video terminals, and not a teletype connected through rs-232 serial.

For a short moment, I thought it was a legit teletype...

No serial connection? No retrofitted, pneumatically driven typewriter as a line printer? You've got to do better to stick out.

Mate, it's not that deep.
- Have you got a 27B stroke 6? Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork.

Why does it have 1 and 0 keys when i and o would work just as well? Can't stand this kind of bloat...

/s

They've at least chosen to not include !.

Your image description says what kind of typewriter you’re using but not the kind of paper!! What kind of paper are you using? Anything fancy?

Ah, my apologies. Just a sheet of normal ISO A4 printer paper. Nothing fancy.

oof. no escape key. i bet there are no vi bindings either.

If you use the standard editor, ed, then these sorts of things are no obstacle.
- With the correct terminal type set, vi would start in ex mode anyway afaik.
Just remap caps lock smh

Not the point of the meme, but where does one go about getting fresh supplies (ribbons, replacement keys, etc...) for old typewriters like this to keep them in top condition?

Ah, well I'm not too sure. The typewriter itself came from a charity shop, and my grandma bought me the ribbon. I have only owned it for a few days, so I haven't bought anything myself.
There'll be plenty of places online, though, and of course you do have !typewriters@lemmy.cafe at your disposal.

Qwerty though? Remap that thing over to Colemak or something!

i want to see a paper based dumb terminal now

Like a TTY?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
- yeah basically
I want to see someone with too much time on their hands build a haunted typewriter, by hooking an electronic typewriter up to an LLM
- same
That's literally card punchers.
Edit: better link, with video.
- no, I mean a whole dumb terminal (basically a digital typewriter that was used for early computers) but using paper as its display. I'm pretty sure that was a thing before the digital ones but I want to see one that works with modern linux

Please tell me that's a teletype

Nope, typewriter

It's beautiful, I've looked at this for five minutes now. You've won at the internet today, gg

The topping of this is going to require 220 lb 100% cotton vellum-finish cardstock and someone equipped with a calligraphy pen. There are some plotters that can take fountain pens.

Your typewriter is cool :-)

Thanks!

Meanwhile people on fancy multiple FPS screens still use neofetch

How many attempts was that?

Surprisingly, just one. I did make a couple of mistakes, though. (e.g. typing an 8 instead of a ' on the bottom-left corner of the arch, and adding the dashes after 9.9.9.9 in the ping output instead of later on).

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...

Oh damn, I miss ascii text art from the mid 90s!

Anyone remember The Boy With Immovable Hair (TBWIH)?
- Wow, I'm sure glad I missed this the first time around.
Not certain of whether you're thinking specifically of plain ASCII art or also ANSI art (which was specifically around that time and made use of PC drawing characters and ANSI escape sequences), but there's a software package called ansilove that will render ANSI art, as well as some related text art formats, into an image for viewing.
https://www.ansilove.org/
It's packaged in Debian Trixie.
https://16colo.rs/ is a gallery of ANSI art. A lot of the thumbnails are in grayscale, but tap on them and they'll open up and have a lot of colorful artwork.

this is good wallpaper material

Keep going; I can see you're well on your way to getting it installed.

You need to check things. There are at least 47 packages, so NefoFetch isn't reporting the correct number.

Well, it's a very stripped down installation. No bootloader or init system, no display drivers, busybox replaces a load of stuff, ed(1) is the only editor available, and a few things were compiled from source.
When you've got 0B of storage and 0B of RAM, you've got to work with what you have.

I like this a lot

I'm pretty sure there should be colors there

It was either red or black, and Arch definitely doesn't use red in its branding.
That typewriter probably doesn't support color, but apparently some had a ribbon with multiple colors and the ability to select among them.
https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jnie9o/can_someone_pls_tell_me_why_my_typewriter_has/
This guy is using it to do color accents with typewriter art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqi2qY918M
EDIT: Oh, wait, holy shit. This ribbon is multicolor --- you can see the red stripe on the ribbon, and apparently the Remington Travel Riter Deluxe does support multiple colors on a ribbon.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133756651478
EDIT2: Here's the manual:
https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonRandTravel-RiterDeLuxe_Manual.pdf
I think that it's the lever in the upper right on the front that switches color.
EDIT3: You know, decades ago, I remember fiddling with my dad's typewriter. It had a selector lever there too. Could never figure out what it was for, seem to recall that it adjusted the height of the hammers, which seemed pointless. He only had a black ribbon, but I bet that it supported a multicolor ribbon, and that's what it was for. Never did resolve that mystery until now!

that's not even linux

My guy, I literally typed out the fastfetch output for Arch Linux.
- Yes. You typed it out. You don't need Lunix for that. It's not backwards enough to be a hack or at least amusingly pointless but -unless you've never seen a typwriter in your life- just boring.
- RTFM