After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I’d also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale.
After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I’d also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale.
Oh man, did that feel like a long time until I managed to get there… Adding insult to injury was that every step took two tries. First I didn’t type my username for
ssh, which resulted in the default termux user being used, so I had to cancel that and try again. After that I triedpkill kanata, which responded withkilling pid ... failed: Operation not permitted, which made me realize, that it’s running asroot, so I need to usesudoto stop it.All this time I was hammering
C-cwith my other hand and keeping an eye on the screen as well to see what is happening. 😶I would like to think that I would react better if that happened to me but I know that I would fumble in the worst ways possible, so I feel you