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[–] 100 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Back in the early 2010s I was sitting on a long train ride, and opened my hacker-sticker-covered netbook and started doing some terminal stuff in a console window; nothing particularly remarkable or exciting-looking, just navigating directories and moving some files around. An older lady sitting next to me glanced over, her eyes got wide, and she got up and moved to a seat further away from me.

I still think about that moment a lot.

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  • [–] 74 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    There was a guy who got approached by a flight attendant for doing calculus on a plane. Some other passenger had reported him for doing something in Arabic, which we all know could hijack and take down the plane!

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    The real question is why were you moving files with the terminal emulator?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Because that's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to do?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I'm a terminal noob, but feels like a file manager would be way easier to move files.

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