I am not sure I have understood your question, but I will try to answer anyway.

Your console window is in a certain directory. This is like if you open your file browser and go to a certain directory (folder).

You typed "pwd", asking it to print the current working directory (where you are). It told you that you are in your Home folder.

Then you asked it to list out what is in that directory. It gave you a list. Those blue ones ending in / are directories inside your home folder. The white ones are files in your home folder. Is that the list you are referring to?

If you open a file browser and go to your home directory, you would see those files and folders there (assuming the system you are on has a GUI and file browser).

Does that answer your question?

Ah that makes sense. I had considered it might be a server but you mentioned a Konsole tab so my mind decided it must have been local machine.

Crazy it took 2 days to restart the server!

Could you have restarted to allow the OS to clean it up?

The US president's pension apparently came about after Truman left office and fell into financial difficulty.

According to that article, it seems pretty rare around the rest of the world.

I guess it comes down to 1. What is it trying to achieve? and 2. Does it achieve it, or meaningfully move things towards that goal?

And to be honest, I don't think I've found any info to answer either of those questions 🤷

I wish I could get a job that kept giving me perks after I’d left/been sacked

I don't know what they get, and I'm sure I'd be upset if I did know so I'm not looking it up.

With that said, a job like Prime Minister is a role you work your whole life for (not the current PM, but a normal one) and then you get 3, 6 years, maybe 9 in the role then you are out forever. Your career is over. The only way to keep having a job is to go be a consultant or give some talks. If you're left wing maybe you can do a Helen Clark or Jacinda Ardern and get paid to work towards a better world. If you're right wing you've already given up that path so all you can do is go work for one of your lobbyists.

I guess the idea is to give politicians an alternative to selling out?

I try really hard to always add alt text! Maybe this is something the Lemmy software/apps need to support more, e.g. prompt the user if no alt text is provided.

Just checked, and Mastodon provides a little warning to tell you to add alt text:

It's probably not even clear to most Lemmy users that the [] for images in markdown are where you put the alt text.