TM(1fun)

💖 TM(1fun) — the meditate page, bestie 💖

okay so like. welcome to tm(1fun), the section-1-fun manual for tm. yes it's real, yes it's silly, and yes I'm gonna walk you through every single line of it because nothing here is filler. periodt. 🧘♀️✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tm — meditate. that's it. that's the whole job. it meditates. iconic behavior honestly. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tm [-number] [time]

two lil optional things, that's the whole vibe. -number and time. slay. 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie. tm causes UNIX to go into a state where all current activities are suspended for time minutes. and time defaults to 20. twenty whole minutes of nothing. main character energy fr fr. 😌

at the very beginning of that period, tm generates a set of number transcendental numbers. and number defaults to 3. so by default you get three lil transcendentals. cute.

then it prints a two- to six-character nonsense syllable — that's the mantra — on every logged-in terminal. and ngl the important part: it's a different syllable on each terminal. not the same one. each terminal gets its own. unique queen energy. 👑

for the rest of the time interval, it repeats these numbers to itself, in random order, binary digit by binary digit (memory permitting — so like, if there's RAM, iykyk), while simultaneously contemplating its kernel. it's doing two things at once and both of them are deeply weird. respect.

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🫶 so what are YOU supposed to do 🫶

it is suggested that users utilize the time thus provided to do some meditating themselves. like, the tool is meditating, you might as well too?

one possibility is to close one's eyes, attempt to shut out one's surroundings, and concentrate on the mantra supplied by tm. that's the whole assignment. eyes shut, world off, mantra on. 💖

at the end of the time interval, UNIX returns to the suspended activities, refreshed and reinvigorated. hopefully, so do the users. hopefully!! 😭

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🎀 FILES 🎀

tm does not use any files, in an attempt to isolate itself from external influences and distractions.

literally zero files. none. it's not reading your config, it's not writing a log, it's in its no-contact era and honestly? valid. 🦋

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

bestie listen. if it gets disturbed for any reason during the interval of meditation — any reason at all — tm locks the keyboard on every terminal, prints an unprintable expletive, and then unlocks the keyboard.

not me getting jumpscared by a meditation program. 🙈

and then: subsequent UNIX operation may be marked by an unusual number of lost or scrambled files and dropped lines.

⚠️ yeah so don't disturb it. that's not a vibe. that's a whole incident.

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😭 BUGS 😭

here's the cursed knowledge, fr fr:

if number is greater than 32,767 (decimal), tm appears to generate rational numbers for the entire time interval, after which the behavior of the system may be completely irrational (i.e., transcendental).

it's giving math joke. it's giving actual danger. both. simultaneously. slay i guess?? 💀

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🔥 WARNING 🔥

attempts to use flog(1) on tm are invariably counterproductive.

invariably. counterproductive. do not. 🙅♀️

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay so this page doesn't have a SEE ALSO section of its own, but there is exactly one cross-reference hiding in here and you already met it: flog(1). that's the whole link list, bestie. keep it in your heart. 💜

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and that's the page!! signed off with love from TM(1fun) — that's the manual name, section 1fun, and it's stamped front to back on this page, top and bottom, like a lil watermarked selfie. 🌈⭐

go meditate. or don't. tm will do it for you anyway. 🫶✨