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This is one of the first things I install on a new machine after oh-my-zsh


I'm not trying to troll you or be annoying or get off my lawn kinda thing right, but seriously, what the fuck is the point of oh-my-zsh?

I still use ksh these days (actually, the openbsd version, even on linux) and it behaves EXACTLY the same way as a bash shell to the uninitiated (ctrl+r, fc -l, etc etc etc)..

I have some little shell functions that I use for things, like 'git_branch()' which I use with some aliases (I have >200 shell aliases)..

ZSH has a fucking ftp client in it right? And it still just behaves like bash? What does it do on top? Am I missing something? :}


> I have some little shell functions that I use for things, like 'git_branch()' which I use with some aliases (I have >200 shell aliases)..

I think you may have just answered your own question -- it includes ready-made shell themes and plugins. Not everyone wants to work that hard (including me!).


For me, the few plugins I use have really good/sane defaults so any configuration is minimal (can't even remember configuring any of them, tbh, lol). Mostly I use oh-my-zsh not to improve zsh itself [besides the aussiegeek theme :^)], but to make zsh work more harmoniously with other programs - tmux, git, rg, etc.


You are asking the point of omz and saying ksh has the same features as zsh

omz is a tool for zsh users, that is its purpose in life

Zsh has a lot more features than ksh, the functionality ksh has is the lower bound if it works for you great

If you enjoy DIY writing 200 aliases great, zsh like bash is more than path autocomplete and aliases it’s a lot more


I think @cyberpunk is reacting to the complexity of zsh versus more traditional shells. For some value of traditional.

I look at zsh alias features and my head explodes a bit. The glob patterns can get so complex, they look like Perl or sendmail config strings.


ayyyy cmong mang


Not sure why I got flagged for mentioning Scooby-Doo. The censors have no sense of humour. Shaggy spoke like a stoner and got munchies all the time.

"Older teenagers and adults have admitted to enjoying Scooby-Doo because of presumed subversive themes which involve theories of drug use and sexuality, in particular that Shaggy is assumed to be a user of cannabis"

-- from wikipedia


Comatose patients would be so relieved to be able to communicate with the outside world


I don't think that's exactly the condition you're looking for here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma


A Coma is prolonged unconsciousness. These patients are awake, aware, and yet trapped in their bodies, unable to communicate.

Most previous brain signal translation has been adaptions of typing in some form. This is directly translating signals intended for vocal cords, IE for vocal speech, into text.


A nice thought but I feel like this is more likely useful on the paralyzed. Comatose indicates minimal brain activity.


Not exactly. Comas just indicate prolonged unconsciousness and inability to react (in terms of body movement) to stimuli, not minimal brain activity.

https://www.brain-injury-law-center.com/blog/brain-activity-...

A complete lack of brain activity is brain death. Brain activity is often slowed in comatose patients, but that varies from patient to patient.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/traumatic-bra...


Just host your own runners https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/


That requires on-prem hardware (or I guess you could spin VMs up in the cloud, but I doubt that works out cheaper than hosted CI).


Hi, GitLab team member here. You can spin up a cloud instance, or dive deeper into auto-scaling the GitLab CI/CD runner: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/11/23/autoscale-ci-runner...

Depending on your needs, automatically managing and deploying this could also be interesting. We have started a new project called the "5 min production app": https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/12/15/first-code-to-ci-cd...

Alternatively, partners provide hosted runners, if that is an option for you: https://partners.gitlab.com/English/directory/search?f0=Serv...


It definitely is. On AWS, you can run it on spot instances with autoscaling. Including also networking price, it is an order of magnitude cheaper.


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