Can confirm; user is file too

Class of '99 here.

There's at least a decade between the beginning of that list and people regularly using punch cards and tape. Maybe two.

Magnetic tapes and actually floppy floppy disks were the medium of choice in the interim.

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Haha no my friend uses Linux and I haven't made the switch because I was under the impression that you have to be a command line wiz. Then he went on a rant about graphical interface.

Yes, the "did I stutter?" If everything is a file philosophy.

Ok you got me with this one.

Btw the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.

Source: user

I run linux off an 80s cassette. The flip side is Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple.

(arch btw)

But are sockets not files?

Everything is computer.

files are named sockets 🕉️

(arch btw)

Well there's your problem. Can I interest you in TempleOS?

In the end, we are all files. We have our read()s and write()s, in in our time we play many offsets.

I feel like it's more of a "If I tried to tell you what this was, you wouldn't believe me" than a "I am physically incapable of explaining the idea that you're plugged into a computer".

Generally speaking, a handle is an opaque reference to an os object; the typedef here makes that clear. Linux uses the same general concept as well, though file objects are typically referenced through file descriptors rather than windows style handles.

Welcome, brother. But remember that they must walk the path themselves or they will never reach true understanding.

Eh, there are distros where you will never need to touch a command line if you don't want to. In fact, most modern mainstream ones are that way: Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.

Though I don't understand the fear of the command line. My grandmother owned two computers in her life and both of them were command line only. She was not a researcher at a university, a professional programmer or anything like that, just a normal person with a high school education.

She just wasn't afraid to read the manual and try things. I still remember the spiral-bound manual with post-its covered in her nurses shorthand.

She used them to run the books for the family business, first an Apple ][, then a PC running DOS. She also used them to write letters and the church newsletter, practice Bridge, organize her family genealogy work, and things like that.

ok then how do i access [2b00:13c0:47:1422::5]:7236 through a file?

i don't think that's possible

only on plan9

echo hello >  /dev/tcp/2b00:13c0:47:1422::5/7236