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Nepsis@nepsis127001

October 13, 2022

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:
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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.
:-)

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