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-date = 2022-06-16
-title = "A Terminal Lifestyle"
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-# Text-Based Simplicity
-
-I've detailed my views on web-based minimalism and related topics in other posts
-throughout the years; e.g., JavaScript/CSS bloat slowing down websites that are
-essentially a text document. However, I have never really expanded beyond
-talking about the web and describing how I focus on minimizing distractions in
-other digital environments.
-
-This post is going to set the baseline for how I _try_ to live my digital life.
-It does not necessarily get into my physical life, which is often harder to
-control and contain all the noise in our modern world.
-
-While there are new things to do every day in our digital world, I find that
-keeping a core set of values and interests can ground you and keep you mindful
-of _why_ you are participating in the digital world. For example, if - at your
-core - you have no interest in what strangers think about random topics, it
-would be unwise to start participating in social media. However, I am someone
-who has been dragged in by effective advertising to participate in communities
-that I realize I do not care for.
-
-I won't dive much further into explaining the philosophy of all this, but I will
-link a few helpful articles that may pique your interest if you're in search of
-more meaningful experiences:
-
--   [Mindfulness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness)
--   [Minimalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism)
--   [Stoicism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism)
-
-# Living Life in the Terminal
-
-My personal approach to reducing digital distractions and increasing my focus on
-the task at hand is to use a terminal for as much as I possibly can.
-
-Most days, this means that I have a few tabs open constantly in my terminal:
-
-1. A web browser
-2. A chat client
-3. An email client
-4. An RSS feed reader
-5. A local shell for navigating my computer's files
-6. A remote shell for managing servers and other machines
-
-Beyond this, I rarely open other tabs or GUI applications, unless absolutely
-necessary. If you look, you may be surprised what can be accomplished in the
-terminal.
-
-For example, I have moved my music and entertainment downloads to the terminal,
-along with my device VPN connections. I am exploring options for moving my RSS
-subscriptions to something like [Newsboat](https://newsboat.org/), so that I can
-read my daily articles without all the fuss.
-
-Now that we have some examples out of the way, let's dive into the specifics.
-
-## Browsing the Web
-
-I'm going to start off with a hard topic for those who prefer to live in the
-terminal: web browsing. This task is made hard mostly by websites and web apps
-that require JavaScript to run. The other difficult part is that if you're using
-a text-based browser, that means images won't load (hopefully that's obvious).
-
-I am using [Lynx](https://lynx.invisible-island.net), a text-based browser that
-runs quickly and easily in the terminal. Lynx allows me to browser most websites
-by simply typing `g` and then typing in the URL I want.
-
-If you need a search engine while in Lynx, I recommend [DuckDuckGo
-(Lite)](https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/), which allows you to search the web
-using their text-only interface.
-
-Eventually, you will run into websites that don't work (or are just too ugly and
-messy) in a text-only mode, and you'll be forced to switch over to a GUI browser
-to look at that site. Personally, I don't mind this as it doesn't happen as
-often as I thought it would.
-
-The only time I need to do this is when I want to browse an image/video-focused
-webpage or if I need to log in to a site, and it doesn't support a text-only
-login page. For example, I am able to easily log in to
-[Sourcehut](https://sr.ht) in lynx.
-
-## Chatting with Friends
-
-After web browsing activities, my main form of terminal communication is Matrix.
-I use the [gomuks](https://docs.mau.fi/gomuks/) client currently.
-
-This was incredibly easy to install on macOS (but I will need to see if it'll be
-just as easy on Linux when my new laptop arrives):
-
-```sh
-brew install gomuks
-```
-
-Once you launch gomuks, it will sync and require your username and password to
-login. After doing so, the only problem I ran into was verifying my gomuks
-client so that I could participate in rooms with E2EE.
-
-Finally, I was able to verify the session by opening the Element desktop app (I
-assume you can do this in the browser and mobile app too, but I'm not sure) and
-manually verifying myself with this process:
-
-1. Open the Element desktop app
-2. Open a room I was a member of
-3. Open the `Room Info` pane
-4. Open the `People` menu and search for myself
-5. Click on my profile name
-6. Click on the session link under the `Security` section and follow the prompts
-   to manually verify the session
-
-Overall, I like gomuks and am able to enjoy all the features I was using in
-Element. The only hiccup I have occurred is manually downloading images to view
-them, which can be annoying.
-
-## Email
-
-Moving email to the terminal has been the hardest of the tasks for me. Unlike
-web browsing, where I can simply decide to not look at a website that does not
-work in the terminal, I cannot simply ignore emails sent to me.
-
-Personally, I am experimenting with [neomutt](https://neomutt.org/) as a
-potential email client.
-
-However, this requires a **TON** of configuration and tweaking to get right.
-Even when I was able to set up neomutt, configure my email account, and
-customize a few personal preferences, a lot of emails still do not display
-correctly (mostly due to HTML and images).
-
-I won't get into the details of configuring `neomutt`; I mostly followed this
-blog post: [Email in the Terminal: Configuring
-Neomutt](https://gideonwolfe.com/posts/workflow/neomutt/intro/).
-
-Finally, I have yet to figure out how to connect my GPG keys to `neomutt`, but
-that's a problem for another day.
-
-## RSS Feed Reader
-
-I have just started using [Newsboat](https://newsboat.org/) to read articles in
-my terminal and have found quick success with it.
-
-The configuration was super easy for this app; I simply installed the app,
-created a file for URLs, and imported my OPML subscriptions that I had exported
-out of my old feed reader:
-
-```sh
-brew install newsboat
-```
-
-```sh
-touch ~/.newsboat/urls
-```
-
-```sh
-newsboat -i=my_subscriptions.opml
-```
-
-## Writing & Programming
-
-Unfortunately, the weak link in my terminal-based environment right now is my
-grasp of the possibilities of editing files within a shell.
-
-I am used to the easy extensions found in VSCodium and Kate, so I am slowly
-learning how to mold the default editing tools to my needs. Currently, this
-means I am using `nano` with the following configuration:
-
-```config
-set breaklonglines
-set autoindent
-set linenumbers
-set tabstospaces
-set tabsize 2
-set fill 80
-```
-
-This configuration allows nano to automatically hard-wrap lines at 80
-characters, autoindent the wrapped lines (if the previous line was indented),
-use 2 spaces per tab, and display line numbers within each file I open.
-
-I am currently looking to see if `vim` or `emacs` would be more useful for my
-current needs, but I'm not in any rush, so I don't expect to find an answer
-anytime soon.
-
-With my current life demands, I am not programming at the moment and have not
-explored the best terminal set-up for programming. However, I have seen many
-peers find success configuring `vim` and `emacs`, so that's where I will start
-when I pick my projects back up.