ahistorical immaterialistMay 10, 2023
TIL that the scp command does not, by default, compress files it transfers, and that you need to add the -C flag to make it do that, and by doing that I have sped up my transfer speed about 40x, and without this knowledge I have probably wasted literally days of my life waiting for things in the past.
Show threadahistorical immaterialistMay 10, 2023
Some may say "why are you using scp rather than rsync" and to that I say, rsync has even more ridiculously complicated flags to learn.
Show threadPär BjörklundMay 10, 2023
@jimbob also scp is included with windows, rsync is not 😀
Show threadTimMay 10, 2023
@Paxxi @jimbob Have I genuinely been away from Windows so long that it's gotten... useful tools? Is this reality? Am I real?
Show threadPär BjörklundMay 10, 2023
@penryu @jimbob things have happened, it ships proper curl, albeit an old version afaik, ssh client and server and it's got a package manager(sort of) winget
Show threadTimMay 10, 2023

@Paxxi @jimbob I'm impressed. Canonical has been a good influence, I take it?

I don't suppose there's a reasonable terminal emulator? Or is putty still a thing? Or is WSL a better option?

Show threaddragonfrogMay 10, 2023
@penryu @Paxxi @jimbob I don't think you can run a local CMD shell in putty, but if I'm wrong and someone points that out I'll be delighted.
Show threadTimMay 10, 2023

@dragonfrog @Paxxi @jimbob

Of all the things I would do in a posix terminal, cmd isn't one of them.

Show threaddragonfrog

@penryu @Paxxi @jimbob

Sure, a whole posix shell environment would be fantastic, but this is still Windows and you still need to run the tools to manage the OS in something. Might as well not be the world's least useful terminal.

May 10, 2023 at 4:47pmWeb
Show threadPär BjörklundMay 10, 2023
@dragonfrog @penryu @jimbob windows terminal + powershell is great
Show threadTimMay 10, 2023
@dragonfrog @Paxxi @jimbob ngl all I really want is not to have to download putty as soon as I login