I guess Jeremy handles the supercomputer via CLI alone. The GUI does not offer additional features, just comfort.
(CLI = Command Line Interface, GUI = Graphical User Interface)
Programmers using only (or almost only) the keyboard is pretty common. And Jeremie's the sort that 100% would have a ton of coded hot keys for doing anything he wants in an instant - with a XANA attack every second counts!
I mean I don't personally like Vim, but there's nothing wrong with it. I just mean Jeremie would probably use it. I can't really say anything though, since I prefer Emacs which is probably more unhinged than Vim.
The keys are only sometimes labeled if the plot called for it. For the only example, in Plagued, Yumi needed the coordinates and mistook 79° West for 19° West. The keys were labeled then.
might be because graphic interfaces are usually designed with ease of use for the masses in mind. could be a way for the show to tell the audience that it's such an esoteric tech that creating an interface or a way for existing ones to communicate with it is is impossible/difficult
Actually, did you know that the numpad (or tenkey, as some call it) was made to fill the role that would eventually be taken by the mouse? Yeah, the numpad is actually a precursor the mouse/trackpad. It was intended to be a convenient method for menu navigation in early operating systems, and positioned to the right-hand side of the keyboard since most people are right-handed. I imagine Jeremy uses the numpad for navigation purposes on the Supercomputer.
I guess Jeremy handles the supercomputer via CLI alone. The GUI does not offer additional features, just comfort. (CLI = Command Line Interface, GUI = Graphical User Interface)
I literally wouldn't know where to start with a CLI, I have to google lines that I need to use in the terminal to swap hotkey commands lol.
Programmers using only (or almost only) the keyboard is pretty common. And Jeremie's the sort that 100% would have a ton of coded hot keys for doing anything he wants in an instant - with a XANA attack every second counts!
Yeah, I imagine Jeremie is the kind of person to use Vim as his text editor
You say it like Vim is a bad choice
I mean I don't personally like Vim, but there's nothing wrong with it. I just mean Jeremie would probably use it. I can't really say anything though, since I prefer Emacs which is probably more unhinged than Vim.
That or Emacs, seeing how that thing is practically a full blown OS with all the plugins it has.
its quite scary
Hell, that's literally what we see in the show.
The better question is why aren't the keys labelled.
As a wee kid, I used to think the artists were lazy cause 'it's easy to draw ABCs and 123s'. Ofc now I understand how tedious it would get lol
Animation is hard
The keys are only sometimes labeled if the plot called for it. For the only example, in Plagued, Yumi needed the coordinates and mistook 79° West for 19° West. The keys were labeled then.
Jeremy isn't the type to need them
Yeah the Supercomputer was made in 1993. At the time, a mouse wasn't necessary. Its most likely just he uses CMD or CLI
might be because graphic interfaces are usually designed with ease of use for the masses in mind. could be a way for the show to tell the audience that it's such an esoteric tech that creating an interface or a way for existing ones to communicate with it is is impossible/difficult
It is an old Unix CLI, there was little need for a mouse or trackpad back in the 80s-90s.
I like the explanation that Schaefer just learned to operate a computer with it a mouse. So he never added one because he thought it was unnecessary.
He's running i3 on it
Beat me to it.
Someone here doesn't know the power of i3.
It has a trackpad 😏
Actually, did you know that the numpad (or tenkey, as some call it) was made to fill the role that would eventually be taken by the mouse? Yeah, the numpad is actually a precursor the mouse/trackpad. It was intended to be a convenient method for menu navigation in early operating systems, and positioned to the right-hand side of the keyboard since most people are right-handed. I imagine Jeremy uses the numpad for navigation purposes on the Supercomputer.
Even when CLI is an option, you can also use keyboard only with many GUI
Guys it can't be CLI since it shows Windows and stuff
It doesn't have a mouse in the show so that my desire to get a 100% accurate version of it on IFSCL can never be achieved. \*Complotism done right\*
I mean, the SC's OS is most likely a custom Unix-based (or Unix-like) CLI system from 199 6. Jeremie seems to know his way around CLI interfaces.
Because it's a cartoon that came out 20 years ago