Funny terminal pipeline to make you smile each time your run the terminal

[CaffeineAddict]

First install these packages:

sudo apt install cowsay lolcat fortune

Then run:

fortune | cowsay | lolcat

And what you get is the cow telling you random quotes in random color, each time you run it:

You can go step ahead and put this into your .bashrc so that each time you start terminal the cow tells you something new:

echo "fortune | cowsay | lolcat" >> ~/.bashrc

 

[tinfoil-hat]

uptime on linux always gives me a smile

 

[MikeRocor]

uptime on linux always gives me a smile

But OMG, don't you reboot every other day for updates?!?

My longest uptime was just under two years but I haven't even gone over a year in a long time. It makes me smile enough that I added it to my conky display. Currently at 39 days.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

But OMG, don't you reboot every other day for updates?!?

Agree, I've read on few sites reboot is healthy after update even if everything seem to be working fine, depends on what was upgraded.

 

[gvisoc]

But OMG, don't you reboot every other day for updates?!?

My longest uptime was just under two years but I haven't even gone over a year in a long time. It makes me smile enough that I added it to my conky display. Currently at 39 days.

724 kernels waiting in line to be used.

 

[osprey]

 

[MikeRocor]

Agree, I've read on few sites reboot is healthy after update even if everything seem to be working fine, depends on what was upgraded.

Yeah, on Tiny Core, there's no really clean and robust way to uninstall applications other than to simply reboot w/o loading the app in question so updating applications isn't really complete until a reboot (*). The dirty little secret is that I hardly ever do that either. Usually if I'm installing to a new device or doing a major OS version upgrade, I do a fresh parallel install alongside the old version (if any) and grab the latest of everything at that time and then don't monkey with it unless something breaks.

At least one of my computers is a veritable Tiny Core museum because I never got around to removing the old versions. Every once in a while, I boot up one of the older versions for a walk down memory lane and there it is - the old system with all my data from some bygone era exactly as I left "in case the new one didn't work".

*) It's been on my todo list for a decade or more to build a reverse dependency thingy but so far the urge to uninstall stuff hasn't really been that strong.