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Subject: Re: terminal only for two weeks
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On 2024-11-26, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, John McCue wrote:
>
>> Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
>>> From the ?text is good enough? department:
>>> Title: Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024
>>> Author: Thom Holwerda
>>> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:13:32 +0000
>>> Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/141194/using-only-a-linux-terminal-for-my-personal-computing-in-2024/
>>>
>>>
>>> A month and a bit ago,?I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only
>>> computer[1].
>>> [?]
>>>
>>> The only way to really find out was to give it a go.
>>
>> I am glad you tried, sure it was a nice and very different
>> experience.
>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Doing everything from the terminal just isn't viable for me,
>>> mostly because I didn't grow up with it.
>>
>> Fair enough, but at least you tried to see what things were
>> like for us old people.  But yes, big changes like this are
>> hard to deal with.
>>
>> I started before DOS existed on minis and I remember when
>> GUIs became a thing.  I had to be dragged kicking and
>> screaming into that environment :)  Still I pretty much live
>> in Xterms and only need a GUI for browsing and html email.
>
> Through the wonders of alpine, atleast you can do html email in the 
> terminal as well! =)
>
> I use the gui for web browsing, reading pdf:s and libreoffice. The rest 
> sits in the terminal (email, programming/scripting, tinkering, reading 
> text files).
>
> I have been thinking about moving the reading part of web browsing into 
> the terminal as well, but haven't found a browser I'm happy with. Modern 
> web sites tend to become too messed up when viewed in the terminal. Maybe 
> it would be possible to write a kind of "pre-processor" that formats web 
> sites with a text based browser in mind?
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Nice post!
>>
>>

I just use gopher for tons of web services. From youtube search, to Internet Archive
and TPB. And IRC+Bitlbee for Jabber, Mastodon and such.