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It started as a stupid project cause I was bored. How much can you actually do without a windowing environment?
After finding out how to post to lemmy from a TTY, I realized that I can do most things I do daily using text.
Browsing the web in links, which opens all sorts of files in the corresponding programs if configured correctly.
Opening images in fbi, PDFs in fbpdf, listening to music in cmus, watching movies in mplayer, using e-mail in alpine, creating documents in vim and latex, ...
The only thing that still requires a GUI is image editing and a few websites I need that don't work without JavaScript.
And it's actually really nice...more focused, without loading times, animations, popups, ads, or other distractions, and everything is scriptable.

Anyway, sorry for the blog post.

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[-] Draghetta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Why alpine instead of mutt? It must be some 20 years since I least heard about pine or any of its forks

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Alpine is an email client.

Mutt is a maildir reader which you can use as a part of your DIY email client.

[-] Draghetta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

… what? mutt can talk imap and smtp natively, I don’t know what else you need to qualify as an “email client”

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Since when? I made two attempts over many years and an elaborate offlineimap and msmtp setup was needed both times.

[-] Draghetta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

🤷‍♀️ I was using mutt for both smtp and imap in 2002, don’t know how long before that it worked — but at least since then.

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Alright then, I guess it's time for attempt #3 with the newly acquired knowledge. Thanks!

[-] Draghetta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Best of luck my friend

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