On: Unity Systems Home Manager Support

[Nextgrid]

This gives off a retrofuturistic feel that reminds me of Alien Isolation. I kinda want to see how it would look like in practice attached to a modern Home Assistant system. Maybe that's my excuse to learn ncurses and TTY programming?

[teddyh → Nextgrid]

> reminds me of Alien Isolation

Probably because the interfaces there were based on the interfaces of the sentry guns of Aliens.

[stavros → teddyh]

Get an old TV and make it? Though I guess you'd still need the touch interactions.

[Nextgrid → stavros]

You can get pretty close with a modern LCD and something like https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.

[teddyh → stavros]

The sentry guns in Aliens used monochrome amber LCD screens.

[bheadmaster → Nextgrid]

Reminds me of Fallout terminals, as well. And that's a good idea. If I ever have a Home Assistant, it's gonna have Fallout-terminal interface.

[cptnapalm → Nextgrid]

notcurses: https://youtu.be/dcjkezf1ARY