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short-term: Add the terminfo file to your vm provisioning tooling: ansible, terraform, etc long-term: Maintain an alacritty package in your distro of choice so

by dmm 5y ago

short-term: Add the terminfo file to your vm provisioning tooling: ansible, terraform, etc long-term: Maintain an alacritty package in your distro of choice so the terminfo is automatically included

CameronNemo 5y ago
Sometimes we have to deal with VMs admin'd by other people.
smsm42 5y ago
I can just imagine me chatting with devops people: - Hi Jeff, I know you have a todo queue from here till the next century, but please add one more item, having all our VMs, however they built, to include this set of files. I need it ASAP since without it if I log in to a server, I can't use backspace. - What? Why? This looks like lots of work to modify each one of our 10000 deployments. It also may create some bugs and using non-standard deployment packages is time-consuming. What's wrong with plain old ssh, it works everywhere? What's wrong with your backspace, maybe I should order you a new keyboard? - Well, ssh is fine but you see, I've got this new OpenGL super-fancy terminal emulator, and if I use it to ssh into a random server my backspace doesn't work. So if you changed every deployment we have to support it, that would be great, mmmkay? Oh and longer term I also need you to maintain a custom package for every linux distribution we might use that fixes this issue. - Are you high? Did you check you temperature lately - maybe you have a high fever and your mental capacities are compromised? - Hold on, Jeff, don't you think me using a fancy terminal program than can scroll 35% faster worth the effort? And it's also written in Rust! You could use it too, it's really awesome unless you need the backspace key for some weird reason. - clickety click I've disabled all your shell access to all our servers until your mental health improves, and asked HR to issue you a week of sick days. Please get well soon.

by dmm 5y ago

short-term: Add the terminfo file to your vm provisioning tooling: ansible, terraform, etc long-term: Maintain an alacritty package in your distro of choice so the terminfo is automatically included

CameronNemo 5y ago

Sometimes we have to deal with VMs admin'd by other people.

smsm42 5y ago

I can just imagine me chatting with devops people: - Hi Jeff, I know you have a todo queue from here till the next century, but please add one more item, having all our VMs, however they built, to include this set of files. I need it ASAP since without it if I log in to a server, I can't use backspace. - What? Why? This looks like lots of work to modify each one of our 10000 deployments. It also may create some bugs and using non-standard deployment packages is time-consuming. What's wrong with plain old ssh, it works everywhere? What's wrong with your backspace, maybe I should order you a new keyboard? - Well, ssh is fine but you see, I've got this new OpenGL super-fancy terminal emulator, and if I use it to ssh into a random server my backspace doesn't work. So if you changed every deployment we have to support it, that would be great, mmmkay? Oh and longer term I also need you to maintain a custom package for every linux distribution we might use that fixes this issue. - Are you high? Did you check you temperature lately - maybe you have a high fever and your mental capacities are compromised? - Hold on, Jeff, don't you think me using a fancy terminal program than can scroll 35% faster worth the effort? And it's also written in Rust! You could use it too, it's really awesome unless you need the backspace key for some weird reason. - clickety click I've disabled all your shell access to all our servers until your mental health improves, and asked HR to issue you a week of sick days. Please get well soon.