Elephants in the room are obvious by definition.

I think the point of the phrase is that it is obvious but people refuse to talk about it

In addition to what other commenters said - TUIs can be installed on a server and used over SSH

This is the part that I like the most, which is why I created https://pico.sh

Further, when building ssh "apps" you can build out tooling for client clis that already exist (e.g. rsync, sftp, scp, sshfs). This provides ergonomics because now users aren't required to install extra tools to deploy static sites, for example.

The entire experience is pretty seamless since all developers use SSH anyway.

Well CLI and web UIs can also be used remotely. (Arguably even x11 apps can.)

Even with compression on, running most apps like a web browser over x11 forwarding, is slow to the point of almost being unusuable.

However running web apps over forwarding is pretty decent. VS Code and pgAdmin have desktop like performance running in the browser SSH port forwarded from a remote server.

To truly self-host anything, you must first invent the universe.

it's obvious when text has been produced by chatGPT with the default prompt - but there's probably loads of text on the internet which doesn't follow AI's usual prose style that blends in well.

Even when I try some other variation of prompts or writing styles there's always this sense of "perfectness", with all paragraph lengths being too perfect, length and the style of it being like that.

I set up my keyboards this way - it’s pretty trivial with layers in QMK and means my Dvorak setup is fully portable between computers.

The existing C++ Photoshop codebase was largely ported to WASM with Emscripten https://web.dev/articles/ps-on-the-web