That’s not the kind of ball-fondling I had in mind.

That's kinda how hacking in half life alyx works, the vr game, it feels a lot better than the ol' lockpicking in pancake games

This encryption is so strong, not even the inventor can crack it!

I could see it being a real thing. When you're making a game it gives you visualization for animations (both physics and visual-only) and shaders (maybe even a simplified stylized version). Random benchmark results/debug info. Drawing attention to syntax mistakes. An important email or video call pops up.

It would be cool and potentially useful, but completely un-asked for and likely distracting and a waste of space. Basically what if your computer was a non-cartoon clippy.

outside of the keyboard, you could defiantly make this into a viable terminal interface. just make sure all of the "widgets" are relevant information and its not a bad idea.

Can you imagine the eye strain one would get programming on a translucent screen every day? One where your always having to keep your eyes focused on semi transparent text and graphical interfaces in the foreground, and not the distracting and ever changing background, continuously shifting in parallax as you adjust your head and viewing angle. Not having my display buttressed up against a wall, or having to deal with glare and screen reflections, or even low contrast monitors in general are all things I find infuriating already.

But I guess the Sci-Fi future of ergonomics is holograms. *You must have your migraines, and you must enjoy them.

I’m surprised more people do not talk about this. Its easily the most annoying trope for me. Could you imagine hearing your machine beep through processing for 8-10 hours at a time each day? Its asinine to even consider anyone in these technology roles would deal with that.

Don't forget. If you have a server and it's been penetrated, there needs to be a monitor which displays "SERVER HACKED" in giant, red, blinking text.

Just don't look directly at it for too long or it'll cause a buffer overflow in your brain and you'll start yelling out your private keys instead of saying words.

It's also on the AUR. Hilarious package. Would be fun to somehow turn into a screensaver

I have solved the problem of knowing were I am all the time by buying a mirror.

My immediate thought as well

Reverse the polarities

you are gonna need an energy reverser for that one

Until you watch mr robot and everything typed on screen is accurate to the plot/hack

There is an answer to the question that you are not asking, and it's the scene from NCIS where TWO people are furiously typing on ONE keyboard so that they can "hack faster"

Apparently, it is a thing on at least one show. NCIS once showed two people using the same keyboard at the same time.

The primary thing is entertainment. They have to make something that is entertaining to watch. For example even explosions are exaggerated. In movies they contain much more fire than they usually contain.

I remember way back in uni at a hackathon, our table had a projector on it so of course we connected to it and set up Hacker Typer to auto play and keep typing out gibberish. But then some sponsor walked on by and stared, visibly impressed by what was happening. It wasn't until they asked for a picture that we realized they had never seen Hacker Typer before. And yes, we took the picture without telling them what it was.

Screenshot?

Some parts of it could be useful for cloud engineering

I have been trapped in vi and I don’t know how to escape.

Send help.

That's what I do.