Genact

Jul 20, 2023

Nonsense activity generator

genact is a nonsense terminal activity generator.

It is described in the following way by its authors

Pretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work! Impress people with your insane multitasking skills. Just open a few instances of genact and watch the show. genact has multiple scenes that pretend to be doing something exciting or useful when in reality nothing is happening at all.

genact can load modules, which produce different activity. Currently, it comes with the following set of modules bootlog, cargo, cc, composer, cryptomining, simcity, download, memdump, kernel_compile, weblog.



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