Old McInquiry had a prompt, e-i-e-i-o

I love this sort of thing:

Notes on Personal Computing

It can feel a bit as though I've "given in" for not wanting to build/customize its foundation, but I'm lazily fine with whatever Linux a modern Chromebook provides. I mean, I'm sure I'm forgetting things I've installed therein that I'm not remembering regularly leaning on in this moment, but within that minimal environment do I feel I need nothing more than vim and Lua to be happy and/or productive.

johano

Just wanted to mention that I read your notes there and found them interesting, and largely aligned with how I feel about computers too.

inquiry

I've this tendency to postpone getting things done until "everything's just right"... which, of course, tends to mean never.

It turns out that tinkering with an underlying shell environment and/or operating system couldn't be a better example of that. For me.

And I'm not saying there's no value in such tinkering. But I pretty much exhausted the iceberg underbelly value of doing such many years ago, so that bringing tried 'n true dotfile content to new places is really all I need do to be ready to rock.

johano

My distro hopping and tinkering has slowed way down too, and I also keep a file of basically how I like everything set up in case need be for disaster recovery

inquiry

I've a script I admittedly haven't used in too long that tar/gzip's the stuff under $HOME I consider either vital or such that it would be painful to re-write.

But I long ago stopped archiving any of the unbelly. I just bring my *.tar.gz wherever I need it, and its content just plain works.

johano

I don't have such a script *per se*, but I do have backed-up markdown notes of exactly how I like my sysconfig... should probably do something akin to what you have with the important dotfiles from $HOME...

tetris

I'm slowly losing patience with Firefox, I genuinely think they now exist just to keep Google out of the monopoly spotlight. They track you, overpay their CEOs and are not loyal to either their core devs nor their main fanbase.

My current browser is still Firefox, but I've been experimenting with ungoogled-chromium and even considering Brave. On my mobile I already use bromite as my default, and it's improved general useability

inquiry

I've gotten great kilometerage out of

elinks

Gosh, I do miss the days of ricing my Arch laptop. I still have it, but now that it's pretty much entirely functional, I can't bring myself to change the configurations. Nostalgic for those innocent days of pywal and polybar...