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Raspberry Pi swapfile config be like, “maximum upper limit is 2048 megabytes. Do not change this!”

And I am like, “yeah, whatever xxxxa8192^[:wq”

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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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You can tell I’m fucking ancient because I know how to type “ESC” on a keyboard without an escape key.
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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File it under “arcane knowledge” along with not only knowing that control-a control-k clears any text dialogue in Mac OS, but also knowing WHY it does.
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: j@fabrica:~/src; :t_blink:
: j@fabrica:~/src; :t_blink:
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had a lovely conversation on the unix historical society list about terminal influences, like ADM-3a leading to vi’s hjkl movement. You all are my people.
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Mike Quin
Mike Quin
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Woah 🤯 . While I know why that works, it had never occurred to me to try it.
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Sion [main]
Sion [main]
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I'm not sure *I* know that.

OTOH, I'm typing this on a keyboard that has an ESC instead of `

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PheebeUK
PheebeUK
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@sparrowsion I hung out on the end of a serial terminal for too long when I was younger...
@Sion [main]
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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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Still one of my habits from using DEC terminaks. I think I do sometimes use the actual ESC key but ^[ is wired into my fingers too
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: j@fabrica:~/src; :t_blink:
: j@fabrica:~/src; :t_blink:
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what, people don’t have to enter that the long way to manually kill a dangling ssh connection any more?
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Alan Braggins
Alan Braggins
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I knew that, but had forgotten until your string reminded me. I don't think I've ever had to use it though, the VT220s I used had keyboard with Esc key.
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