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  • r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafeundefined

    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent, I realized how much my daily setup changed over the years

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    r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafeundefined
    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent, I realized how much my daily setup changed over the years.I removed my external monitor and keyboard.Not to be minimalist, but to reduce context switching.I kept the mouse because speed still matters.Working sometimes from my parents house made it clear that relying on an external monitor was fragile, so I forced myself to work only with the laptop.The same thing happened with software.Vim slowly became nvi.Alacritty became xterm, then st.I didn’t look for lighter tools, but for ones I could trust and reason about. Less abstraction, fewer surprises.Today I use two identical laptops -- one for work, one personal -- same setup, side by side, one mouse for each.The environment disappears, and the work stays.#suckless #st #nvi #xterm
  • gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined

    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's Inkscape.

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    gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined
    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's Inkscape. I've used it for years, for generating meme-type images, for producing my resume, for several portfolio projects, drafting SVG source images for laser-cutter/3d-printer work, and likely dozens of other projects I'm forgetting at the moment.Having implemented a *tiny fraction* of a vector image editor/viewer (in VB6 for the PocketPC using custom XML data-structures under the hood…so early-2000s), I appreciate all the more the hard work done by the Inkscape devs.
  • gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined

    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's lynx(1).

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    gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined
    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's lynx(1). Which is amusing because it's been scheduled for today on my calendar since the beginning of the month, but @neil chose to share links(1) today as well, for many of the same reasons. 😆It's been around for decades—I used it to browse gopherspace (and maybe WAIS?) in the 90s via a 1200 baud dial-up connection to a shell account and later the nascent WWW when it arrived.Sadly, ClownFlare, Google, and anti-AI-bot/scraper tech has made many formerly-accessible-with-lynx sites now inaccessible, some blocking by User-Agent, some blocking due to the lack of JavaScript support.But it has the right amount of usability and friction, so I can use it from my command-line-only writer-deck netbook to do a little research or read some HTML documentation, without getting sucked into the modern web.My custom configuration puts it in Advanced mode (no help-bar at the bottom), specifies vi-key-bindings, a custom color-scheme, uses links-and-form-fields-are-numbered making it easy to jump to them, and text-fields-require-activation so I don't get stuck in text input boxes when using j/k to scroll up/down in the document.I also have a couple shell wrapper-functions to invoke lynx on particular URLs (Wikipedia, dictionary/thesaurus/rhyming resources, web search, etc) with the CLI arguments filled in.I also have mutt configured to show text/html messages in lynx (either using `lynx -dump` and the internal pager, or using `m` from the attachments menu to view it interactively)
  • gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined

    Though a bit niche, my #FreeSoftwareAdvent today is ed(1).

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    gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined
    Though a bit niche, my #FreeSoftwareAdvent today is ed(1). As the goofball behind @ed1conf, I certainly play it up, but I certainly use it more than the average Unix/BSD/Linux user.A while ago I wrote up list of reasons¹ why one might use ed, and some are more obscure/improbable reasons (though I've encountered all of them in that post), there are a couple of those that drive me back to ed regularly:• I can still see the output of previous commands on the screen while I edit, where a full-screen editor would obscure that output that I need to incorporate in my edit• it's just darn fast for a quick edit, changing a variable name or adding/removing an entry in a list, etc. No startup costs for a honkin' huge $VISUAL with dozens of plugins and language-server processes and GUI rendering• very usable on low-bandwith/high-latency connections like I sometimes get when I remote into machines (less of a problem now, but I still experience sessions where I'll SSH in, invoke ed, make the change, write & quit, and exit the shell, in a couple seconds, while the screen repaints things oh-so-slowly• and most importantly, there's quality geek-cred for using it in front of others 😆⸻¹ https://blog.thechases.com/posts/cli/why-ed1/