I see you with your CLIs. What are you doing?
sudo apt update
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo apt upgrade
This is my real answer lol. All I ever run on my chomebook is this and a web browser.
run htop and just occasionally switch to an editor with some syntax highlighting on random code and people will know youre a elite haxor.
four pane terminal: top left running
htop, top right showing the commit history for a gnarly repo, bottom right just runningcat /dev/urandom, bottom left is acowsayscript reciting the dialogue of “Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”
No Sudo apt update. sudo dnf upgrade -y && sudo flatpak upgrade -y
steamos-readonly disable
sudo pacman -Syyu
steamos-readonly enable
(for my docked steam deck)
sudo zypper dup --allow-vendor-change -y
i write comments on lemmy
There actually is a TUI client for Lemmy
Using
vimto write code or usingssh… to usevimto write code…If you’re asking specifically what the terminal windows I have open right now are for:
- Shelled into a raspberry pi, running top to evaluate whether this project needs a better CPU than the Pi Zero W has.
- vim, editing some Perl script that will go onto the pi.
- a terminal that I forgot I had open.
I think I used it yesterday for editing some systems stuff.I used to to run sed to replace a bunch of strings in a file. - ffplay rtsp://192.168.80.11/live (watching my printer to make sure the current print doesn’t turn into spaghetti)
Getting work done.
Listening to music:
- https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/ncmpc
- https://github.com/Serpentian/subsonic-tui
- https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui
- https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
Read the news
- https://github.com/CrociDB/bulletty
- https://github.com/mrusme/canard
- https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI
Download Linux ISOs
Browse the interwebs
- https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
- https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
- https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
Listen to podcasts
I really need to check out Carbonyl. How well does it handle very low end machines?
Writing code. Server code doesn’t have a UI.
Hacking. It’s always hacking /s
We’re in!
I have it plugged into my TV to watch mindless television from the high seas.
For me it’s always https://hackertyper.com/
Laptops are toxic to your cervical spine. There’s no solution where the laptop’s open and you’re not gonna pay the price later.
Tell me more. I’ve noticed I use my laptop a lot more often nowadays, but usually follow good ergonomics.
I think they mean that with the screen next to your hands there is no good way to have a good ergonomic posture. You’re either staring down at your hands if you keep your elbows at 90°, or you have the screen level with your eyes and your arms are putta whack, or somewhere in between. Plus the lack of ergo keyboard design.
$ hollywood$ cmatrix$ sl | lolcatOr the silliest one of all…
$ emacsHacking the Gibson
Basically anything that isn’t a Web browser.
Links2, lynx, offpunk are all good browsers for the TUI each serving somewhat different purposes
Appreciate the suggestions, but the Web is significantly better with a GUI.
Yes it is. I only use it from a TUI when trying to kill distractions.
If you see me in public I’m usually chaining a bunch of tunnels together in some odd way to get around the poorly configured WiFi and actually secure my traffic.
