VindictiveJudge

Exactly. You need documentation to figure out how to do anything in a CLI, and if you forget it’s back to the documentation, but a GUI exposes all its commands immediately, allowing the user to find things on their own.

Except the iOS UI, which is heavily reliant on gestures with varying numbers of fingers, pressure dependent touch commands that are difficult to pull off consistently (seriously, how the hell do you deliberately do the multi-select drag thing?), and hidden menus that are exposed by dragging in from specific portions of the screen at specific angles with no hint that they’re there.

My experience has usually been someone with a very thick accent and an incredibly crappy microphone.

I mean, legitimately, unless you’re doing power user things, you don’t really need the terminal.

This is a fairly recent development, though. Last time I tried Linux I was using the terminal several times a week just browsing the internet and playing games. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how infrequently I have to use it now, but I was surprised given my previous experience.

Or they could get an actor of the same caliber as Christopher Reeve, who completely sold the idea of Clark not being immediately recognizable as Superman.

They’re talking about opening car doors for her.

It was on an episode of Home Improvement. Not sure if the show started it or if it was just referencing the existing fad.

By Grabthar’s hammer, what a movie.

Fox learned during his first term that if they push too hard their viewers just go to Newsmax instead.

Anything old enough to have been filmed in black and white was shot on film, which can be scanned in HD just fine so long as you have access to the actual film. The remaster of the original Star Trek is a great example.