Terminal

The linux terminal is your lifeblood. There are so many - TOO MANY - options. I'll gather a few of my favorite things here.

This is mucho importante to quickly tell which machine you are on:

use figlet and jp2a to create ascii art
update ~/.bashrc to echo the ascii art in a host-specific color, and to persist that color in the prompt
make sure to include an interactive check to avoid the banner if not interactive

See the many examples of .bashrc in the config repo.

top, htop are meh
This must be perfected, it is the answer, it shows a TREE of terminal processes:

watch -n 1 ps fT

Remember this one to drop a dead ssh session!

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