No fake youtube lighting.

Thanks for the video; very informative! 👍 I like that lighting, it has very natural color, how you managed that? /s 😊 Personally, I'm in tmux camp, for no rational reason other than ideological one: I prefer ISC/BSD license to GNU 🤷‍♂

Bring back that fish eye lighting that was cool else i'll copy that.

I break pacman all the time

4:56 NetSurf should work in a framebuffer, but I haven't verified this myself yet.

use now 2 years Arch and 1 year of the two Artix - [ no systemd ] . In two years i had to downgrade one pkg and it was not the fault of arch - Conclusion : Arch/Artix stable like steel ...

Ive been trying to get my audio interface to work in arch for a year now.

Thumbs up James!

Hello, thanks, do you have any advice for learning scripting?

5:09 interesting syntax highlighting colors

Thanks for the video, quite interesting! I don't know why I'm 🤡 like this - so obsessed with tty, both real and virtual and I'm still in love with pinnacle of text-based computing - DEC VT525, although I will not say no to VT125 with or without color option 🤪

Good stuff, James.

Hi James, Thanks for your Video It was awesome the magic you did with tty!

Old-School! My first software corp job was assisting a senior programmer in 1998. He taught me that this is how he set his AIX Unix terminal and then on mine. But, I didn't know how it worked and my job was mostly admin of our AWFUL Windows PCs. Thanks for explaining this 27 years later. VIM Fingers are soooo valuable but I need practice. Reaching for my mouse is such a weak move. I'll try this again . Thanks James.

What are software are you using to make your keypresses show up as text in the video?

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Linux still have huge compatibility problems. My Asus Z690A motherboard w Nvidia display running Linux Mint 21.3 , the Libreoffice won't run. I seen multiple laptop problems under various Linux distro too. While Windows 10 n 11 ran perfectly in same system.

Hi James, Thanks for your Video Usually I check my bar-clock and find very interesting having one in my terminal

Hi James, Thanks for your Video I see - newly - you post apps written in Rust and I wonder if it's because the advages of it I feel it a pretty app..

Lesson learned: don't use CAPS in Vim

Thumbs up James, another quality video, thanks!

Thanks for the video! IDK about devour, so I git cloned it on FreeBSD, but for now I'm having trouble with make not linking X stuff - at least is fun, I like to play with things I know jack about 😁

I have a tile desktop environment in my learning list, because free and open-source CLI is such a pleasure to use.

@JamesChampionLinux YT won't let me reply, sorry: Oh, in the link you posted there is a solution and even an Arch pkg by evanpurkhiser at github , thank you very much you are the best! 👍 But answer opened another rabbit hole of googling for me, I never saw ANSI Operating System Command sequences used IRL like that (AFAIR I only saw OSC used for setting xterm title?), it's great that this works in Linux console! P.S. Edit: Recap - for now we found 3 ways to choose RGB color values in Linux console: a) passing 'vt.default_[color]=' kernel parameter in grub; b) emitting raw ANSI OSC P sequences c) code by evanpurkhiser (basically OSC P, but more elegant and permanent)

Keep up the great videos

Thanks for the video! Honest question: in FreeBSD we can redefine console ANSI16 colors at boot, before kernel is loaded, with: 'kern.vt.color.vt.[0-15].rgb="#hexvalue" in /boot/loader.conf; for example my black background is kern.vt.color.vt.0.rgb="#3a3a3a" because pure b/w is to harsh contrast for my eyes (don’t ask, I'm fighting MS(G35)). Of course, I have set rgb values for all colors, and then I'm using same values in xterm and konsole color settings. Is something like this (and how) possible in Linux tty console?

0:50 i read that as tt-viper lol

Yeah i saw that video. One thing i noticed. Was they said they would put off updates for extended periods of time to avoid breaking their system. In my experience that is the thing that will break stuff. It wont always, but not regularly updating definitely makes issues much more likely to occur. But i definitely agree that it has to be something with how their system is set up. Because i just don't ever have issues like that. I update every day, or nearly everyday. Don't run into problems. The only thing i have ever had an issue with was trying to rin the git versions of qtile and hyprland. And they were pretty easily solved. But that still wasn't arch's fault.

Very informative James, thank you Sir. Looking forward to your next video :)

Hi James, Thanks for your Video It're nice configs you propose

i use date +%T as prompt to track time

Here is my PS1 configuration: # Components of the prompt HOST="\[\033[02;36m\]\h" # Hostname TIME="\[\033[01;31m\]\t" # Current time USER="\[\033[01;32m\]\u" # Username LOCATION="\[\033[01;34m\]\w" # Current directory BRANCH="\[\033[00;33m\]\$(git_branch)" # Git branch STATUS="\[\$(git_status)\]" # Git status indicators # Primary prompt PS1=" $TIME $USER $LOCATION $BRANCH $STATUS \$ \[\033[00m\]" # Secondary prompt PS2='\[\033[01;36m\]> '

Hey, I said that!

Thanks for the video! Personally, I like my prompt to be two lines high, with top line having colored user name and full working dir path, and second one just greater-than sign, so that prompt will not take a any space in the line, because I like to amuse myself with stupidly long one-liners 😎

just so you know PS1 and even PS2 links to playstation lol

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Another brilliant video. In the video you use i3lock. You should give betterlockscreen a try (which is a fork of i3lock-color). It has some nice features such as blurred background image and it supports all the features you outlined. As a pen tester, I do want to point out that the TTY thing is only a vuln if your box has ports forwarded on the firewall. It’s still good security practice to do, however, if you mistype your password 3 times you’ll have to reboot (or wait). It’s happened to me many times. It’s a short price to pay for an increase in security though. btw, RIP David Lynch. You should do a video on him (if you find it relevant). My favorite of his is lost highway. I really like that your channel pertains to Linux security and film

What are your thoughts on C vs C++? I’ve been developing in both for many years. I don’t like the dichotomy that is pushed by C purists. For example, I like to use C for embedded software where everything is written from scratch. For large programs that require lots of functionality I like C++. I don’t buy into this either/or that a lot of people preach. I’m curious to know what your thoughts are on this.

I think it’s just spelled as a shorthand for “tty typer”. This is a great package and I’m glad you’re introducing people to it. A lot of people advise people to “get good” at typing without actually giving tangible ways of going about it, and you actually do. There’s another package whose name escapes me at the time, I think it’s GNU typist, not sure but it’s a lot older than this. Regardless, with a program like this it doesn’t matter if it’s written in C or Rust. Great video!

Great! Now we can flex our typing speeds in a suckless way :)

The weird and constant hand gestures makes it so hard to follow the actual content 😅Anyways, thanks for the video!

Great feedback N0zer0! Thanks for putting this comment into action James, great video :)

Thanks for the video! I'm one of the rare cases that started typing on typewriter some 44 years ago, got first mechanical comp keyboard 5 years later, had 2 years of typing classes in high school and still uses no more than 5 fingers when typing 🤷‍♂ So, I'll go entertain myself watching in my tty good old "telnet towel^blinkenlights^nl" (redux by Simon Jansen) 😎

I read my audio waveforms and visualize what they would sound like in my head, get on my level /s

Great content. Reinforced just what I thought will happen! We had computers imposed on us at work, big things with green screens, later all versions of Windows, XP when I retired. I bought one when Vista came out. I was knocked out by all the things it could do, fantastic, alas just before support ended it got so slow as to be almost useless. I bought a Windows 10 pc. It had nothing on it except a recycle bin! I had to run the Vista pc for months so I could e-mail and write letters. I gradually made the Win 10 pc usable but to this day lacks the functionality the Vista one had out of the box. Also you loose so much stored info, passwords etc, a total nightmare. When I was younger I enjoyed the challenge, but believe me us oldies don't want the upheaval, we're not interested we just need them to work! On a form I recently received it explained how to access details on-line, but if you don't have computer access go to www.***** Wonderful! Keep up the great content. 😊

also they had you type free before allocating memory in the c typing test ;)

Windows 11 is the only way forward.

I run Fedora as my main machine, everything I do including browsing, working on hobby projects is on it, but if I need to test something, then Arch in QEMU/KVM is where I test stuff, and Arch hasn't even broken in that VM which I made like 2 months ago (before that I was just using VBox and didn't know about KVM lol, like I knew about types of hypervisors but didn't know Linux had it in the kernel and QEMU utilized it). Even though Fedora with Btrfs is really hard to break, I still look up the application's quirks I'm about to install (I've always been like that, even on Windows I used to check an app's reputation on my system), and the community probably has saved me a lot of times. Oh, btw, I'm doing a BS in Software Engineering, and I don't even like keeping my uni stuff on the same drive as the system... I keep everything related to uni on a mounted HDD (and keep a backup on a USB). If uni asks me to install a crappy software, I look for an alt that works better on my system and is more lightweight than at least the recommended one, or if I have to, then it remains separate from the main system. But then again, I've always been a minimal guy (minimal in the sense of just installing what I need and keeping stuff on separate drives).

james is your Final boss of , "I use Arch BTW" guy.

0:27 are you talking about Mashed?