Make Yourself Look Like an Important A-hole Using Only the Terminal

…you know, in case you need to impress any foreign dignitaries.

[@proximacentaur1654]

There are whole channels predicated on this statement.

[@pacbilly]

Hehehehe, pinning this comment!

[@niceandgames]

If I was a visiting dignitary I would compliment you on the luxurious amount of important information on your screen and tell you to keep up the good work young man!

[@pacbilly]

You see there? War... averted.

[@qw1d5thgbfe]

My smile had gotten bigger and bigger while you kept playing 2048 and didn't give a f*ck about the video for a while. =)

[@pacbilly]

Hehe, some things are just more important.

[@ClayTheFoxx]

*proceeds to play 2048 for a few minutes*

[@pacbilly]

Hey, some things are more important than saving the world through diplomacy.

[@ClayTheFoxx]

@@pacbilly no doubt lol

[@bondjovi4595]

"I solve dependencies....... By hand." Lol 😆

[@medinachete73]

Congrats. You've perverted a clean, nice, non-distracting terminal window into something kinda usable. Thanks a lot.

[@pacbilly]

:D Got to impress those visiting dignitaries, you know!

[@medinachete73]

@@pacbilly Consider it done, IMHO.

[@TheTanglingTreats]

Missing out some htop and cmatrix to really up that intimidation factor when that dignitary walks by.

[@pacbilly]

Yeah, lots of folks have said it needs cmatrix. I can't remember at this point why I didn't add it at the time. It'll be the first one I do if ever there's a sequel.

[@michaelheimbrand5424]

Both YT and my brain decided that I needed this at the same time.

[@pacbilly]

I'm beginning to doubt the soundness of both. :D

[@Sizzlik]

I do that to myself out of boredom.

[@pacbilly]

While you're at it you may as well invite some foreign dignitaries over.

[@opposite342]

YT recommended me here. My first thought was "where is cmatrix?"

[@pacbilly]

That was a lot of people's first thought. I'll have to remedy it in a part 2.

[@plume...]

Thank you pacbilly, This will be useful for when I am at a fundraiser dinner party (probably at Batwayne's mansion or something, I don't know) and maybe need to garner the sympathies of the rear admirals wife or some such. I'll tell her it's terminal.

[@pacbilly]

The technique I've outlined is especially effective on those foreign dignitaries wearing epaulets and lots of medals, maybe a sash, so a rear admiral's wife would be perfect.

[@itsthesola10]

Save yourself the trouble and use the "hollywood" command

[@nermket4849]

This could've stopped the fire nation

[@pacbilly]

If only...

[@bullpup1337]

where is cmatrix dude

[@pacbilly]

I should really do an updated one. There's tons of more fun stuff to impress visiting diplomats with.

[@WVWVW1]

WAIT 5 MINUTES AGO!... YEARS!

[@pacbilly]

:D Time is relative.

[@deathdogg0]

The algorithm is with us tonight!

[@pacbilly]

:D

[@oglothenerd]

Sorry, -100 street cred for using MacOS instead of Linux. 😆

[@michaelheimbrand5424]

Yeah, but 200 street cred up for using UNIX.

[@oglothenerd]

@@michaelheimbrand5424 Well actually... UNIX is a proprietary operating system built in 1969. 🤓

[@michaelheimbrand5424]

@@oglothenerd Well it started as a research OS at Bell Labs. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie was the founding fathers and it was a reaction to the over-complicated "Multics". Somewhere around the mid 70´s (IIRC). Thompson brought UNIX with him to Berkeley and it´s from that we got BSD UNIX. The rest is of course history and what "UNIX" is today depends on if you are a lawyer or a BSD geek. MacOS is very much UNIX. In fact, I think they managed to get to be the first BSD based OS to get UNIX certification somewhere around 10.4 or 10.5.

[@oglothenerd]

@@michaelheimbrand5424 I know. I was doing the nerd thing. MacOS is a direct descendant of UNIX.

[@TokyoXtreme]

It's a UNIX system. I know this.

[@analactica]

Dude i don't even know what your channel is about yet , i was only recommended this video , but you've got yourself a +1 sub lol i love this , it's better looking than an auto ping ، ranger and a sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade in the cool_retro_term 😂

[@pacbilly]

Ha, thanks!! Hopefully the rest of the content won't be too disappointing. I just post whatever I feel like posting.

[@analactica]

@@pacbilly good enough for me 👍

[@rogergalindo7318]

lolol i use cool retro term when presenting coding projects for my uní clases ahahahha it’s the best

[@TokyoXtreme]

My God, it even has Planetfall.

[@pacbilly]

A classic that I'm sorry to say I haven't spent as much time with as I should've.

[@FishuaJo]

This is awesome 😂 It cracked me up how long you kept playing 2048. Keep being you man.

[@pacbilly]

For several minutes it was just me and those tiles. The viewers and my original purpose for the video were the furthest things from my mind.

[@idogendel]

Now I have to try that 2048 thing. But first, the President!

[@pacbilly]

Don't even attempt to save him without first changing into your tank top and parachute pants!

[@idogendel]

Oh, I always have those on, just in case.

[@_Firebert]

fantastic video

[@GravesPartyArmy]

Bro you got me prompted 😅

[@j00bert]

Lol. Forgetting cmatrix too

[@AmiBorg87]

"Some of which are actually useful!" *tunes out*

[@pacbilly]

I don't think any of them are actually put to good use. I render them fairly useless.

[@mohamedbenguerraiche1616]

Clang, Clang, Clang went the trolley... always reminds me The Simpsons.

[@pacbilly]

Ha, it reminds me of that SNL sketch with Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn doing the lady lounge singers. I guess a lot of people co-opted it.

[@jedahn]

The music is as fantastic as the advice. Thank you sir.

[@pacbilly]

Hey, I'm all about providing a community service here.

[@jedahn]

​@@pacbilly😂 this video was very fun. Objectively sound advice. We all know this works...

[@uselesstrash8430]

this is what youtube was made for

[@pacbilly]

Terminal-based diplomacy or complete wastes of time?

[@TokyoXtreme]

Yeah, it feels like classic 'Tube from the late 2000s.

[@retrogenius8397]

lol I love the music in the background

[@pacbilly]

The background music is really the video's only redeeming quality.

[@retrogenius8397]

Not the only one, your style too. I wouldn't have watched a video on this subject matter by anybody else :)

[@pacbilly]

:D

[@LastofAvari]

Thanks for an advice from the experience. This 2048 playthrough let's play rocks ;)

[@pacbilly]

Yeah, 2048 is the meat of the video. The rest is just worthless filler.

[@gjceman]

This video will never get old.

[@pacbilly]

:D

[@Dethmeister]

Jack Tramiel sounded very impressed with your terminal.

[@pacbilly]

Hehe, yeah, I guess I should have planned his accent ahead of time. I think I reached for Jack because I hadn't thought about what voice I would do, or even that I would do a voice. Not a very premeditated video.

[@hughdavenport1]

Can you put all the tools in the description pls?

[@swarajaggarwal]

Lf, cmatrix, cava, spt would be honourable mentions lol

[@pacbilly]

I need to do an updated video. I'll make a note to include those.

[@lactobacillusprime]

Multi tasking the old fashioned terminal way! :) I remember doing this! Midnight commander, directory Opus, Norton Commander, Windows Commander, Total Commander, it's all good.

[@pacbilly]

CBM-Command is a relatively recent Commander / Opus style file manager for the C64. And if you're interested in a dual-pane file manager / ftp client for the Mac, I'm a big fan of ForkLift.

[@Theosibo]

I started to get bored while you were playing 2024 and almost clicked away but I am SO glad I didn't. I cackled my ass off for the entire rest of the video after you moved on from it. 😂

[@pacbilly]

:D Hehe, yeah, I play 2084 WAAAY too long in this video. I definitely should've sped through that part. Thanks for hangin' in there!

[@swarajaggarwal]

Me installing arch linux through ssh using a tmux be like:

[@pacbilly]

:D

[@wightrrong4905]

Italian/Jewish accent sounds always impressive and important.

[@pacbilly]

Is that what it is? At one point it sounds like Dracula.

[@saruxxox]

fantastic content

[@pacbilly]

Thanks! :D

[@SSG_Productions]

I just realized my current recommended is the same as October

[@pacbilly]

Timeless.

[@slendi9623]

It could do with a bonsai tree

[@WVWVW1]

The voice at the end killed me. Hahahaha

[@pacbilly]

"We are very best friends."

[@JimPlaysGames]

I nominate PacBilly for the Nobel Peace Prize. Also the No-bull Silly Prize.

[@pacbilly]

:D

[@ordinarryalien]

Where do you find these a-holes in the universe? Our ship has never observed such a phenomenon.

[@pacbilly]

Your scanners must be defective.

[@ordinarryalien]

@@pacbilly Hm. Must be. 👽🤔 We'll be in touch with Starfleet soon, maybe they can help with the scanners. Thanks for the help, hueman.

[@WVWVW1]

Foreign dignitary here. What music are you using?

[@pacbilly]

I probably could have told you five years ago. I have loads and loads of easy listening-type collections that I've grabbed off youtube over the years. Sometimes I'm dinged for copyright and sometimes not.

[@zgoaq]

why is your dignitary apparently slavic?

[@pacbilly]

Ha! It the closest accent I could summon on such short notice. Also, peace between the eastern bloc and the west, etc.

[@natman2211]

whats the music in this?

[@pacbilly]

It's one of any number of Easy Listening things I've found off the internet. Probably from BBC Ceefax pages. There's a lot of stuff that's been uploaded to KZbin along the way. I recognize the first tune as Clang Clang Clang Goes the Trolley from that Judy Garland musical, but I've amassed so much of this stuff now it would be hard to pinpoint where I pulled it from. It's worth noting that YT usually gives me a copyright notice, but it doesn't matter since I don't monetize.

[@Polaventris]

But I am looking like an important a-hole all the time already!

[@pacbilly]

And if I were a foreign dignitary, I'd fly over there to be impressed by what an important a-hole you look like. I am foreign, so I'm halfway there. Just not dignified.

[@KamiDrecksau]

good

[@pacbilly]

:D Thanks!

[@Leo-sd3jt]

I'm in.

[@Trusteft]

I would give you an extra like for the Dragon Ninja reference. (I liked the game a lot) PS. You are fired.

[@pacbilly]

All I can say is, now that I'm looking for a job, it's a good thing I've established such good relations with that foreign dignitary from down the street. I may have to defect.

[@Trusteft]

I don't know what job you had, but since (to quote a kid from Seinfeld) you are a funny fuck, have you ever considered a career in comedy?

[@pacbilly]

You don't know what job I had? But you're the one who fired me! I guess if nothing else that proves I was expendable. I have made a comedic thing or two in my day. Perhaps one day I will share them with the Tubes of Ewe.

[@Trusteft]

What can I say, I am obviously more stupid than I thought I were. Well played. I hope one day you will share them. :) I don't know what it is, but I am intrigued.

[@WVWVW1]

Also is this actually on a mac or is this linux?

[@pacbilly]

No, it's on a Mac. One of the first things I do on every Mac I set up is install the Homebrew command line package manager. At it's core, macOS is a fork of BSD, and a lot of the most popular command line binaries are supported through Homebrew. I still use Linux whenever I can, but there are loads of Mac apps I haven't found suitable substitutes for.

[@WVWVW1]

Interesting, very cool. @@pacbilly

[@kickstart-1.3]

My sex life shows that already, oh, important.

[@pacbilly]

Ha!

[@catsofthecourt]

why dont you just run a arm desktop montiror dashboard net stat board on tails inside a whonix

[@pacbilly]

That'd be a nice use for my Raspberry Pi 400.

[@andgoedu]

This is literally the example xD of script kiddies , most actual hackers and people who use linux prefer the normal terminal because they can freaking focus on it not that but awesome video bro exactly does what it says :p

[@joaoantonio4707]

dude😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@javajav3004]

Am i late?

[@pacbilly]

You're never too late to save the world.

[@javajav3004]

@@pacbilly Thats the mindset!

[@egokhanturk]

macos 👎🏿

[@pacbilly]

macOS ain't so bad. At least it wasn't so bad five years ago. Everything that has come from Catalina on has just gotten worse and worse, and it fights you at every single turn. I ought to make a video about how terrible it's gotten. Everything that makes it bad is all in the name of 'privacy' but it's just like that backup camera warnings that come on every time you start your car -- the lawyers got involved, and it's just about exoneration of guilt. Everything goes to $#!t when you put the bean counters in charge.

[@KrakonosovoBabka]

you failed by using macOS

[@pacbilly]

As I said to the previous commenter: macOS ain't so bad. At least it wasn't so bad five years ago. Everything that has come from Catalina on has just gotten worse and worse, and it fights you at every single turn. I ought to make a video about how terrible it's gotten. Everything that makes it bad is all in the name of 'privacy' but it's just like that backup camera warnings that come on every time you start your car -- the lawyers got involved, and it's just about exoneration of guilt. Everything goes to $#!t when you put the bean counters in charge.