My suggestion is you focus more on learning to use the terminal than figuring out which one to use. Switching terminals is like a micro version of distro hopping without the benefits.

I use ollama for llms, but being a terminal tool, you need to be comfortable using the terminal.

To answer your original question, I use alacritty. Minimal bells and whistles. Just a terminal.

I saw the headlineand thought, bet this is the one where I live… Correct

Overwrite wasn’t the best choice of words. Display in place of is better. There’s a literal option now called “disable hyperchan” If you use that config, you don’t need to do anything else. But, having a dev introduce a feature which supercedes users’ deliberate choices for his, and his cronies amusement was reason enough to leave.

1st turnoff for me was the creator added this anime background which overwrote whatever background you had. I found the file and wrote a hook to automatically delete it on update reverting to mt background, only to find that there was a condig option to do the same thing

2nd The maintainer is a bigot and I won’t support bigotted projects when there are other (better) options like sway which I know use.

TLDR: Creator violates Wheatons Law. I don’t like that.

It’s not a matter of the tools or the times. It’s a matter of teachers not engaging students in a way where learning is organic. Natural. Fun. When I was in school, we didn’t have ai, but when I was asked a question on an exam “what is Jane Eyre’s aunt’s maiden name” I lost all respect for the teacher and shut off.

A truly good teacher not only has a mastery of the material, they have a compelling and creative way of delivering the content. Class becomes a page turner. I want to keep reading to find out what’s next.

Such people are rare, but they share similarities. First, they form meaningful relationships with students. Beyond surface level things like “what’s your pet’s name”. Relationships where students come to the teacher for life advice. Teachers who also do things like go to student events and cheer for them. Like a tennis match or a piano recital.

Good course design is critical. Grades can not be a punishment or something which causes students stress. Grades are the number one reason students cheat. And why wouldn’t they? I hate this thing, and I need straight A’s to get into that prestigious school (where I will continue to cheat). Perhaps we should just rid of grades all together.

Now, when I say its matter of teachers not doing X, I’m not blaming them. But ai is on the doorstep, and short of turning schools into more of police states, the only way to change is for teachers to change. And it works. There are those of us who have shaped ourselves this way since before ai was an issue.

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I should have phrased that better. I agree copy and pasting commands off of the internet is a terrible idea. Be they from ai or from a forum or wiki. By ‘try’ I meant look into. As in explore that path. To you and I ‘try’ means something different than a new user. I will be more careful in the future

If ai gives you something to try it’s better than nothing. But I was going to suggest another distro if someone else hadn’t. Thanks ai…