I was thinking about how fun it would be to add this my Python CLI [0] I made for launching Fedora CoreOS locally with QEMU for testing ignition, but with a flag that is turned off by default. Using the burn effect in TTE when launching a VM with my CLI would be so cool.
This instantly reminded me about Ansible and how it annoyed me that ANSIBLE_NOCOWS had to be enabled to disable the default output of Ansible with cowsay [1].
How serious it is, and how seriously the people who make decisions take it, are if not strictly orthogonal then certainly not guaranteed to closely correlate.
On a further tangent, that reminds me of two of my favorite things to install on a Linux system, ponysay and ascii-pony/systempony. I set each of my systems to a different character to show on bash logins with systempony (WSL instances included)
A while back I install ponysay on one of my servers, and put fortune | ponysay in the .bashrc, so I get a quip from a random mlp pony whenever I log in. Brightens my day a little
This instantly reminded me about Ansible and how it annoyed me that ANSIBLE_NOCOWS had to be enabled to disable the default output of Ansible with cowsay [1].
[0]: https://github.com/quickvm/bupy
[1]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10530