Another justification could be simply some people like using them better.

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Exactly, don't know why people are acting like actually makes TUIs, it's just a rough mockup of a TUI for now, with a convoluted figma-like UI.

I guess the headline and website was enough to get all these upvotes. Quite disappointing as someone in the early stages of making a TUI tutorial myself.

I've been juggling some BBS related projects myself that involve some TUI work over raw and web sockets that I've been working on... It's definitely a fascinating space and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space.

> and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space.

100 percent agree. I personally love what the openTUI folks have been up to. As weird as this might be to say, we're still in the early, early stage of TUI adoption.

Funny enough, the awful UI in Windows 8 (especially the start menu) drove me to become a mac daily driver.

Oh, the initial screens in Win8 were quite awful and offputting for most people who used earlier Windows versions, but the actual UI widget designs felt good.

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Tries to do to contain.. like letting u.s. companies pump trillions into the Chinese economy?

You need a compliance department and attorneys to look over licenses and agreements. It's a real hassle and not really related to cost of the license itself.

Wealth always ends up in the hands of a few.

All the services are revenue generating. Advertisers pay for eyeballs.

this is corporate life.

Set-Top Boxes and Remotes have had mics.