Am I the only one that likes to put something "techy"/"nerdy" on the screen when non-technical people are going to see it? When I last visited my brother, I left eDEX-UI running every time I stepped away from the keyboard. Stuff like that.
@mike that's always fun :p
@mike it’s usually terminal or Atom for me😂😂
@kev I like doing something that has a map so they KINDA understand what it is they're looking at, but not really? eDEX-UI is good for that, or sometimes I just open Fortinet Threat Map with the code inspection window open. Then I get a map with what looks like shots going around the world and unknown code right next to it.
@mike Sometimes even opening thr source code of the website I am visiting is enouhh. 😂
@mike Sometimes I open up a terminal and run top
@downey bpytop is PERFECT for that.
@mike Ha, yeah, I should probably up my game 
@mike Hollywood for this reason.
@mike Yeah! Run Htop with Nord theme, terminal with matrix effects. Once I made a screencast of my desktop and play the video in full screen, while I was looking at the screen. My nephew believed that I controlled the computer with my mind.
@mike Looks fun
In my house this is pointless, my family is all in technology
@v142857 Yea, I don't really do it in my house for that reason. It might fool the kids, but they'd be more than happy with messing with it even if they don't understand it. My wife wouldn't fall for it for a second.
@mike It's glorious when ur sittng somewhere and boot up your computer and this appears:
@hund Ooo, that one is fun. :)
@methyltheobromine Heh, I didn't even have a computer when I was 16.
@methyltheobromine I was 16 in the 90s. :)
@methyltheobromine Because I'm very immature. Plus, kids have more fun.
@mike
I prefer to just leave it on my Manjaro Gnome desktop not to scare people off linux. And it looks beautiful.
@mike I like to get this going:
https://packages.debian.org/buster/cmatrix
@mike My normal i3 rice is usually enough, nothing to change 😆
@mike sudo apt install cmatrix
@mike tho hacking simulator posted by someone else is better :)
@mike Bashtop? cmatrix screensaver?
@mike funny I'm the opposite. When I'm around people I often try to use "normal" apps like a gui file manager instead of a terminal. I think it's me trying to convince people that Linux is actually approachable and normal.
Not sure rhat it works. I think people don't notice the normal stuff because it's normal. They notice the geeky stuff because ot looks like hacking or programming. So it's actually only Li ux if it's noticeably different.
@mike did you get the reaction you anticipated from your brother ?
@heracl3 Pretty much, but then I wasn't expecting much. He would just side eye it as he walked by. Obviously looking at it, but more than a little unsure of what he was seeing.
@mike same! 1) so no one would dare touch it 2) so my mom won't try to ask me to do chores.... it mostly 2 for me jsjsks