In #terminal week, allow me to share my settings.
It's odd, but I actually feel uncomfortable using other thing than not terminal.
After years getting used to this settings, and way of doing things, of creating and detaching a tmux session, and them reattaching it in mt PDA or wherever I am, or in any laptop, as long it has a network connection and my SSH key, for any of both environments: desktop and development.
Here's some of the reasons why I don't intend to go back (or forward, or whatever):
It all runs in a server; it may even be a VPS;
The client can be a really low spec ARM, with 129M (probably less?) RAM;
I try to audit the most of this software I can,so I get to know where I am trusting my personal an professional data -- not saying I'm safe, but it's good to know we can look at it, and put a wireshark on it, that mostly stays silent;
Some of my RAM already delivered me the papers for retirement to a better computer;
It's always the same environment, regardless of at what computer I'm at -- and during the day I change a bit of places;
Updates? Yeah! A lot: In newsboat 2-3x/day to keep up with what's happening.
Really low network transfers (1M per session?), what makes really cheap mobile data plans;
Is this hackable? Who on earth wants this data?!
Most of the stuff I use has been already mentioned in this excellent group:
Desk
Mutt (e-mail);
calcurse (agenda);
finch (chat);
toxic (some conversation are better not to stay in any log in any server);
vit (taskwarrior);
elinks (love it to get quick answers on the web, without the train of cookies to accept, the outstanding web of ads); lynx is great as well, but I prefer this one;
browsh (browse) - Not really used this far, but it's good to have a solution that render a page with more detail, using terminal;
Develop
VIM - What else?!
A lot of useful VIM Plugins like NerdTree; FZF; ULTISnips; tagbar; airline;
Eclim - love this plugin that bridges Eclipse perfectly;
Elinks - great for quick stack overflow doubts;
Now, on the other side: it gives me a panic attack when I need to load Android Studio, XCode, or do anything in Brave; Windows, or anything that was built having the mouse, the RAM, GPU, and the user's wallet in mind.
If you see anything useful in this setup, feel free to ask! I can share some of the configs used.
:-)
Torvalds: Software Freedom Conservancy "is just pure trash"
Following his criticism of their lawsuit against Vizio, the Linux creator says the Software Freedom Conservancy "is trying to further an agenda", & "is a racket, plain and simple".
After receiving an Al generated email, the programming legend (known for his work on Go, Plan 9, UNIX, & UTF-8) says, "F**k you people. Raping the planet."
Torvalds on Vizio Ruling: Software Freedom Conservancy Looks Like "a Bunch of Incompetent Aholes"
Regarding a recent ruling, in SFC v. Vizio, Karen Sandler (SFC Director, former GNOME Director), responds to the Linux creator by saying "maybe you didn't read".
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
After 20 years together (18 years married), I was finally able to get my lovely wife to watch Die Hard. She never had any interest because of how violent it was, but for whatever reason she was open to it this Christmas. I’m happy to report that she loved it! Yippee-ki-yay everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and have a happy New Year.
If you've done 6 impossible things this week, why not round it off with a trip onboard "thE grAvY trAIn" TONIGHT at 21:00 UK! (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern)
The FOMO of not having a Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal
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The Lifetime Subscription was first introduced 3 1/2 years ago… and is still going strong.
The price of a Lifetime Subscription is currently discounted to $89. For life. That’s less than 1/3rd the normal price.
The earlier you pick one up, the quicker that asymptotic line begins approaching zero. Which is fun.
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Imagine missing this discounted priceand missing out on months of, mathematically certain, asymptotic line fun. This is one of those scenarios where Future You (tm) would want to travel back in time to tell Present You (tm) to snag a Lifetime Subscription.
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