How I use my terminal

The article title is actually "How I use my terminal"

Thought that this was going to be a 'There Will Be Blood' spoof.

(In case not obvious, current title is 'I use my terminal')

I use your sudo?

noticed this too after skimming the post, feels like the full title = "I use my terminal (and so should you )"

Plus one for pro-terminal posts. As a chromebooker I've found that all I need is terminal and browser. Switching to my Mac OS seems kinda maximalist and I rarely use much outside of the terminal and, you know, more browsers

HN will automatically trim some common prefixes and suffixes from title submissions

This is a HN "feature" removing How if it's the first word in the title. It serves no purpose other than generating confusion, with mods saying this somehow stops clickbait. How, you wonder? Nobody knows.

I thought this was going to be a blog post about somebody using a terminal emulator they wrote.

Weird. I see a post titled "How to store Go pointers from assembly" literally three posts below this one.

Reminder to anyone submitting an article: you have two hours to edit the title to fix these alterations.

I believe the submitter can manually reject the auto-modified title, but they have to notice that it was modified.

(I could be wrong about that)

You are correct.

I use your

  sudo !!

Not quite reject exactly, you can just edit the title afterward for some X amount of time.

I believe these changes are intended to defang some clickbaity titles, but you are right that it maims some perfectly good ones.

And I thought this was going to be a blog post about someone hooking up an old fashioned hardware terminal to their PC.

You wonder?