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by jadar 15 days ago
The last "When this stops being needed" needs one amendment: "Or stop using Windows."
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Valve could actually create a need for native Windows games.

As it stands the only reason I have to pain myself back into using Linux on bare metal laptops, instead of VMs, is independence from US technologies in European soil, which also implies not having to care about Claude.

> Or stop using Windows

I'd rather continue to be as productive as possible.

Not even getting into the semantics of what one could mean by "productive", that sounds like a bleak existence.
Not everyone here is *nix-pilled (WSL aside). Despite W11's missteps, Windows isn't a completely terrible OS to work on and has some of the best window management outside of a full tiling WM.
I doubt it, Window management has been where MS Windows has been lacking for decades, at most they have caught up. Can you do "Always on top", "Always on the bottom" yet? That's a very basic and easy to implement feature.
Always on top, yes (with PowerToys). But yeah you can't do "always on bottom" yet, but do able with AutoHotKey. Its still lightyears ahead of how macOS manages windows OOTB
Not a bug, pasting images into the terminal is not supported, do not do this, that's not what the terminal is for or how it is used. The standard way is to pass the path of a file to the program as a runtime parameter or in some config file.

Terminals are not alternative web browsers/graphical application sandboxes.

Sixel came out in the 80's as a way to print on dot matrix printers. If your terminal doesn't support that yet, you might want to look into updating your software.
Counterpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302319

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

I really like sixel as well because I do not want to open the image in an IDE when sshed into a remote server.
So basically don't use Claude Code is your suggestion. Not very helpful, guy.
I think you've misunderstood, guy.
pass the url (local or otherwise) of the image to Claude code. Otherwise it's not the terminal's problem, please don't pressure Microsoft to introduce an attack vector to wsl for slop's sake.
The image in my clipboard doesn't have an url.
It could if it was in a file, which is a thing that you control. Take charge of your destiny.
Right, I could paste my clipboard which takes 1 second and zero cognitive load or I can do your suggestion 100x per day and drive myself crazy. No thanks.