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DrewRWx | 7 months ago

I have a hammer and am looking for a nail, but every day something sparks Marshall McLuhan ringing in my head.

The medium truly is the massage. The physical form in which information is being delivered (screen with notch) is beginning to work us over on a concept as old as the terminal.

Yeah, Yakuake; TotalTerminal; and others kept the Quake terminal flame alive, but now that game UI choice interacts with physical reality!

Which reinforces my spicy take...

Spicy take: Skeumorphism is a necessary and probably effective guard rail against tech usage unmooring us from physical reality.

Plus, this augmented reality take on the concept is taking that idea to at least eight strange new places.

Thankfully you don't see an artistic representation of a 3.5 floppy representing an app's "save" function yes-and-ing people into messiah complexes and public mental breakdowns.

All that being said, I am giving this a spin when my work laptop arrives! (Worst case I use the, mostly(?), iTerm2 functional equivalent because that worked pretty well for my needs when I set it up many moons ago.)

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