A wonderful story and very interesting to think that things were faster in some ways when the laymen had to use the CLI/TUI. Here I am in 2024 actually trying

A wonderful story and very interesting to think that things were faster in some ways when the laymen had to use the CLI/TUI. Here I am in 2024 actually trying to rebuild a setup very similar to yours; I do a lot of regular text editing to take notes and logs and journals, and with the world moving the text-first notetaking tools like Obsidian (markdown) or the classic and lovely Emacs (org-mode/roam), it's become more and more important to write and access text quickly. And I think even us on HN have seen similar push for text use as paramount: people scraping away the guff from websites to end up with summarized texts and pseudo-RSS feeds, NLP and LLM reworking text to make it evermore accessible to us humans. Text is king. And the rest is just clutter. So, given that, why not have more terminals around the home? Buying extra PCs and thin-clients is a start, but expensive - what I /really/ need is /interfaces/, monitors and keyboards to work /quickly/. In the age of smartphone soft-keyboards I think we can all agree that typing on them or doing text work is horrible. Yet that's where most text is written. So my point is, maybe we shouldn't have strayed so far - and I think there's a vibrant community of hackers bringing back CLI/TUI as a primary method of interaction. In fact, the physical terminal TTY is actually still quite useful and common for embedded hardware engineers who use it frequently, or old school hardware enthusiasts like this guy [1] who use modern MCUs to work with the traditional terminal standards, which, of course, still work great in Linux like nothing has changed :) [1]: https://youtu.be/pyoiQKK-eh0 https://youtu.be/pyoiQKK-eh0