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Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Elementary OS.
If I were looking for a first-time Linux operating system for a friend or family member, I'd happily give Elementary OS a try, as I have heard nothing but good things about it.
Plus, supporting small projects doing impressive things FTW.
Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent, I realized how much my daily setup changed over the years.
I removed my external monitor and keyboard.
Not to be minimalist, but to reduce context switching.
I kept the mouse because speed still matters.
Working sometimes from my parents house made it clear that relying on an external monitor was fragile, so I forced myself to work only with the laptop.
The same thing happened with software.
Vim slowly became nvi.
Alacritty became xterm, then st.
I didn’t look for lighter tools, but for ones I could trust and reason about. Less abstraction, fewer surprises.
Today I use two identical laptops -- one for work, one personal -- same setup, side by side, one mouse for each.
The environment disappears, and the work stays.
#suckless #st #nvi #xterm
Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent, I realized how much my daily setup changed over the years.
I removed my external monitor and keyboard.
Not to be minimalist, but to reduce context switching.
I kept the mouse because speed still matters.
Working sometimes from my parents house made it clear that relying on an external monitor was fragile, so I forced myself to work only with the laptop.
The same thing happened with software.
Vim slowly became nvi.
Alacritty became xterm, then st.
I didn’t look for lighter tools, but for ones I could trust and reason about. Less abstraction, fewer surprises.
Today I use two identical laptops -- one for work, one personal -- same setup, side by side, one mouse for each.
The environment disappears, and the work stays.
#suckless #st #nvi #xterm
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent entry is my podcatcher, castget(1). I've used several CLI podcatchers over the years, changing mostly because hpodder (my then-favorite) became deprecated and dropped out of repos, so I had to find a replacement.
Configuration is a simple INI-style file, it allows me to post-process files (certain ones I cut off the 7-minutes of advertising at the beginning, customize ID3/ID3v2 tags), and give them a naming-convention that works for how I listen.
It runs nightly from cron(8) downloading to my queue directory-tree, emailing me the resulting output, and saves its state in files that can be fairly easily tracked in version-control (annoyingly it doesn't sort them, so every run mangles them, but a little processing with vim makes quick work of them, meaning the resulting diff output is just the new podcasts and a top-level timestamp change, not a complete remunging of the file). About every 3–4GB of queued-up files, I've usually reached the ones on my player/phone, delete those, and replace them with the fresh queue. It does mean that news podcasts are largely worthless because there could be a 3–4wk lag between when the episode releases and I eventually catch it in my player.
It's simple, it works, and it plays well with the rest of my ecosystem. I like it.
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent entry is my podcatcher, castget(1). I've used several CLI podcatchers over the years, changing mostly because hpodder (my then-favorite) became deprecated and dropped out of repos, so I had to find a replacement.
Configuration is a simple INI-style file, it allows me to post-process files (certain ones I cut off the 7-minutes of advertising at the beginning, customize ID3/ID3v2 tags), and give them a naming-convention that works for how I listen.
It runs nightly from cron(8) downloading to my queue directory-tree, emailing me the resulting output, and saves its state in files that can be fairly easily tracked in version-control (annoyingly it doesn't sort them, so every run mangles them, but a little processing with vim makes quick work of them, meaning the resulting diff output is just the new podcasts and a top-level timestamp change, not a complete remunging of the file). About every 3–4GB of queued-up files, I've usually reached the ones on my player/phone, delete those, and replace them with the fresh queue. It does mean that news podcasts are largely worthless because there could be a 3–4wk lag between when the episode releases and I eventually catch it in my player.
It's simple, it works, and it plays well with the rest of my ecosystem. I like it.
#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 23: F-Droid
F-Droid is my preferred app store for Android. I use the Google Play store to install apps that I can't find in F-Droid, but where possible, I install apps from F-Droid. Some of the Android apps I've mentioned this month aren't available on the Google Play Store, but are available in F-Droid.
Installing via F-Droid is a bit more involved, largely because Google want everyone to use their app store. I was concerned that it was going to get more difficult, but it appears that Google have stepped back from plans to do that.
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Elementary OS.
If I were looking for a first-time Linux operating system for a friend or family member, I'd happily give Elementary OS a try, as I have heard nothing but good things about it.
Plus, supporting small projects doing impressive things FTW.
Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent
#newsraft #RSS
```
git clone https://codeberg.org/newsraft/newsraft
cd newsraft
sudo apt install libcurlpp-dev libgumbo-dev
make && sudo make install
````
1 minute later (without parallelization on a 8yo cpu), you have built a complete RSS reader.
You can even get Gemini feeds (gemget needed though).
ex:
$(gemget -sq https://geminiprotocol.net/news/atom.xml) "GeminiProtocol main feed"
Thank you Grigory Kirillov!
Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent
#newsraft #RSS
```
git clone https://codeberg.org/newsraft/newsraft
cd newsraft
sudo apt install libcurlpp-dev libgumbo-dev
make && sudo make install
````
1 minute later (without parallelization on a 8yo cpu), you have built a complete RSS reader.
You can even get Gemini feeds (gemget needed though).
ex:
$(gemget -sq https://geminiprotocol.net/news/atom.xml) "GeminiProtocol main feed"
Thank you Grigory Kirillov!
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
