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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 196<br />
| date = December 13, 2006<br />
| title = Command Line Fu<br />
| image = command line fu.png<br />
| titletext = When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The {{w|Linux}} command line allows a user to make their computer do nearly anything. The only hitch is that the interface is entirely text-based, and reading through user manuals to find the commands that you need can take a very long time.<br />
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In this comic, [[Cueball]] recounts how he used a command line hack to solve a problem with his monitors turning off during a movie. However, in the time that he spends trying to solve the issue, the woman that he brought home had already left and his need for a movie to watch was gone.<br />
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The title text is the supposed moral to this story; if your user interface takes as long to operate as a command line, you may very well be denying your users the chance to get laid.<br />
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Software that jiggles the mouse [https://mousejiggler.codeplex.com/releases/view/121358 exists] (but only for Windows).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Two men talking.]<br />
:Cueball: Last night I was watching videos with this girl and my monitors kept turning off - even though I had disabled power save.<br />
:Friend: Odd.<br />
:Cueball: However! I wrote a command to jiggle the mouse pointer every couple minutes to keep it from going idle.<br />
:Friend: Not the first hack I'd try, but see? Linux has problems, but it gives you the tools to deal with them - and save your date!<br />
:Cueball: Actually, I was half an hour into the pointer scripting documentation when she got dressed and left.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Linux]]</div>198.41.230.33https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:523:_Decline&diff=88531Talk:523: Decline2015-04-06T01:06:16Z<p>198.41.230.33: </p>
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<div>"Wife"? [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251.87]] 00:33, 27 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:Indeed, plus the notion that Cueball had begun graphing everything at a particular point while prior data had been graphed suggests that he only began presenting this data to Megan at that point, and had been secretly, perhaps obsessively, keeping data well before in their relationship. [[User:Thokling|Thokling]] ([[User talk:Thokling|talk]]) 09:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
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isn't it a bit speculative to add this to "comics featuring megan"? I'd "be bold" and remove it from there but I don't know how to. [[Special:Contributions/198.41.230.33|198.41.230.33]] 01:06, 6 April 2015 (UTC)</div>198.41.230.33