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 (HTM) Author: Jay Scott <me@jay.scot>
       Date:   Sat, 21 Jan 2023 20:41:12 +0000
       
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         M txt/002.txt                         |      12 ++++++++----
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         M txt/006.txt                         |      22 ++++++++++++++--------
         M txt/007.txt                         |       6 ++++--
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 (DIR) diff --git a/bin/sync.sh b/bin/sync.sh
       @@ -1 +1 @@
       -rsync -vz --exclude=.git* --exclude=bin* -a . jay.scot:/srv/gopher
       +rsync -vz --delete --exclude=git* --exclude=.git* --exclude=bin* -a . jay.scot:/srv/gopher
 (DIR) diff --git a/index.gph b/index.gph
       @@ -1,22 +1,35 @@
       -J A Y . S C O T
       +         _.._
       +      <\ \__/ />
       +      < >/  \< >
       +      <_\\__//_>
       +       <_\||/_>
       +         \||/
       +          ||
        
       +    J A Y . S C O T
        
       -├── INDEX
        
       -[0|2022-09-28 ... Convert MBOX to Maildir using FDM|txt/010.txt|server|port]
       +RANTS
       +
       +[0|2023-01-21 ... I downgraded to a mini-pc|txt/011.txt|server|port]
       +[0|2022-09-28 ... Convert mbox to maildir using fdm|txt/010.txt|server|port]
        [0|2022-09-13 ... A true cheap dumbphone,impossible?|txt/009.txt|server|port]
        [0|2022-08-01 ... I moved over to wayland|txt/008.txt|server|port]
        [0|2022-05-01 ... Build, patch and maintain suckless tools|txt/007.txt|server|port]
       -[0|2022-03-01 ... ARCV Association of Really Cruel Viruses|txt/006.txt|server|port]
       -[0|2022-01-02 ... Why I dropped FreeBSD after a month|txt/005.txt|server|port]
       +[0|2022-03-01 ... Association of really cruel viruses (arcv)|txt/006.txt|server|port]
       +[0|2022-01-02 ... Why I dropped freebsd after a month|txt/005.txt|server|port]
        [0|2021-12-01 ... How I use the modern web|txt/004.txt|server|port]
        [0|2021-11-01 ... Qutebrowser is amazing but|txt/003.txt|server|port]
       -[0|2021-10-01 ... Is GitHub the Facebook of coding?|txt/002.txt|server|port]
       +[0|2021-10-01 ... Is github the facebook of coding?|txt/002.txt|server|port]
        [0|2021-09-01 ... So much bloat around dotfiles|txt/001.txt|server|port]
        
        
       -├── INFO
       +PROJECTS
       +
       +[1|GIT ... all of my git repos|git/|server|port]
       +
       +
       +CONTACT
        
       -git   : https://git.sr.ht/~jayscott/
       -email : echo "zr@wnl.fpbg" | tr '[a-z]' '[n-za-m]'
       -gpg   : 0726AF07C73389E1E4475B7EC88BBC696A39CCB0
       +[h|EML ... me (at) jay (dot) scot|mailto:me@jay.scot|server|port]
       +[0|GPG ... 0726AF07C73389E1E4475B7EC88BBC696A39CCB0|about/jay.scot.asc|server|port]
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/001.txt b/txt/001.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [001]
        
        
       -                ── So much bloat around dotfiles ──
       +So much bloat around dotfiles
       +=============================
        
        
        Let's be honest here everyone who uses some form of *BSD or Linux knows
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/002.txt b/txt/002.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [002]
        
        
       -                ── GitHub: The Facebook of coding ──
       +GitHub: The Facebook of coding
       +==============================
        
        
        In my opinion, there is no question that GitHub is the new Facebook for
       @@ -11,7 +12,8 @@ type of users you find on GitHub and secondly the businesses shenanigans
        over the years.
        
        
       -── THE USERS
       +THE USERS
       +---------
        
        Essentially, GitHub is now a necessity when you are applying for jobs
        inside the tech industry, recruiters look for it, businesses are
       @@ -44,7 +46,8 @@ practices, relying exclusively on one way of doing things, the GitHub
        Flow.
        
        
       -── THE COMPANY
       +THE COMPANY
       +-----------
        
        Let's start off with the obvious fact that Microsoft owns GitHub.
        Microsoft has a long track record of open-source hatred, the CEO has
       @@ -95,7 +98,8 @@ Or do what I do an just use the naked git protocol without any front-ends, its
        stupidly simple.
        
        
       -── SOURCES
       +SOURCES
       +-------
        
        >> https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.html
        >> https://git-send-email.io/
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/003.txt b/txt/003.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [003]
        
        
       -                ── Qutebrowser is amazing but ──
       +Qutebrowser is amazing but..
       +============================
        
        
        **UPDATE** as of version 2.0, these are not an issue now. Time to move
       @@ -65,7 +66,9 @@ switch back to Qutebrowser once it has been implemented, but
        unfortunately Firefox and addons are the way for me.
        
        
       -── SOURCES
       +SOURCES
       +-------
       +
        
        >> https://qutebrowser.org
        >> https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/004.txt b/txt/004.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [004]
        
        
       -                ── How I use the modern web ──
       +How I use the modern web
       +========================
        
        
        With how polluted the modern web has become over the years, I actively
       @@ -26,7 +27,8 @@ bollocks. This is why I avoid using a browser as much as possible and
        this is how I achieve it for about 90% of my daily internet usage.
        
        
       -── NEWS
       +NEWS
       +----
        
        Do you need to be reminded every day that Covid has killed X amount of
        people, that some political party leader fucked a dead pig? Nope, you
       @@ -70,7 +72,8 @@ you are apart of have mailing lists. It's another good method of
        "offline" content.
        
        
       -── MEDIA CONTENT
       +MEDIA CONTENT
       +-------------
        
        This one is quite easy to avoid. We all have our favourite channels and
        check daily to see if anything has been uploaded by them. Only to find
       @@ -98,7 +101,8 @@ Finally on media content, podcast. Simply use a tool like castget or if
        you are a newsboat fan use the built-in podboat feature.
        
        
       -── BROWSING
       +BROWSING
       +--------
        
        There is no avoiding using a browser completely. When I do have to use
        one I fire up Qutebrowser, now since my rant about QuteBrowser and
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/005.txt b/txt/005.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [005]
        
        
       -                ── Why I dropped FreeBSD after a month ──
       +Why I dropped freebsd after a month
       +===================================
        
        
        I switched over to using FreeBSD as my main desktop around 1 month ago.
       @@ -12,7 +13,8 @@ does not work with the current stable release 12.2, so I had no choice
        but to use -CURRENT, ALPHA-2 then BETA-1.
        
        
       -── XORG
       +XORG
       +----
        
        My setup is minimal; I don't use any GUI applications apart from the
        rare occasion I need to use a browser; I do use mpv often. Even with
       @@ -26,7 +28,8 @@ tweaking various Xorg options such as Tearfree, SWCursor, etc. This made
        zero improvement, my next port of call was the AMDGPU driver, drm-kmod.
        
        
       -── AMDGPU
       +AMDGPU
       +------
        
        A trip to the GitHub project page for this project did indeed show 4 out
        of 17 issues open are for the exact model of graphics card I have.
       @@ -44,7 +47,8 @@ have a lot of debugging enabled in the kernel by default, which can
        cause degraded system performance.
        
        
       -── KERNEL
       +KERNEL
       +------
        
        I found GENERIC-NODEBUG kernel config; I stripped out a lot of modules
        I wouldn't need to help the build times. This was so simple to do, and
       @@ -57,7 +61,8 @@ little else. I was happy with this for the time being, thinking that
        maybe when BETA-1 or RC came around things would be better.
        
        
       -── BETA-1
       +BETA-1
       +------
        
        Woo-hoo, BETA-1 snapshot was released, time to give it a whirl.  BAM,
        right back to square one. So I went through the same steps again with
       @@ -79,7 +84,8 @@ nearly ZERO issues. All the lag had disappeared! The only cost? I had
        to gimp the potential of my system.
        
        
       -── THE END
       +THE END
       +-------
        
        At this point I had enough, I spent so long on such a trivial matter
        I decided just to go back to Linux until 13.0 is released, then I will
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/006.txt b/txt/006.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [006]
        
        
       -                ── ARCV, Association of Really Cruel Viruses ──
       +Association of really cruel viruses (arcv)
       +==========================================
        
        
        I have saved and collected a **huge** amount of data from the 80s, 90s
       @@ -15,7 +16,8 @@ First up though we have ARCV, a virus writing group from the early
        1990s!
        
        
       -── ARCV
       +ARCV
       +----
        
        Around late 1992 a group emerged calling themselves the Association of
        Really Cruel Viruses (ARCV). The group was initially small, and by all
       @@ -63,9 +65,10 @@ relating to another matter, the BBS SYSOP, and the last one was released
        with no further actions.
        
        
       -── FILES
       +FILES
       +-----
        
       -You can download all the files I have on ARCV from the following gemini
       +You can download all the files I have on ARCV from the following gopher
        site.
        
        
       @@ -78,10 +81,11 @@ site.
        * July 1993 article
        
        
       ->> gemini://jay.scot/files/groups/arcv/ ARVC Files
       +>> gopher://jay.scot/files/groups/arcv/
        
        
       -── MISSING
       +MISSING
       +-------
        
        Got any of these files? Let me know!
        
       @@ -92,7 +96,8 @@ Got any of these files? Let me know!
        * Access All Areas II (96) and III (97) talks/slides (Apache Warrior & ICE-9)
        
        
       -── USENET / EMAILS
       +USENET / EMAILS
       +---------------
        
        --- Feb, 1993 : Spreading Viruses
        --- Personal Computer World Magazine
       @@ -239,7 +244,8 @@ Please bear in mind that I'm only forwarding this message for DC Bonczoszek.
        If you have any questions, please contact him directly.
        
        
       -── SOURCES
       +SOURCES
       +-------
        
        >> https://ivanlef0u.fr/repo/madchat/vxdevl/vdat/misc0040.htm
        
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/007.txt b/txt/007.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [007]
        
        
       -                ── Build, patch and maintain suckless tools ──
       +Build, patch and maintain suckless tools
       +========================================
        
        
        I am a long time supporter of the Unix philosophy and have been using
       @@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ apart from dmenu and st, any additions I have for dwm and herbe are
        added to config.h as functions.
        
        
       -── MAKEFILE
       +MAKEFILE
       +--------
        
        Below is the generic Makefile I use, this one is for dmenu as it's
        a good example to use since I use a few minimal external patches. The
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/008.txt b/txt/008.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [008]
        
        
       -                ── I moved over to wayland ──
       +I moved over to wayland
       +=======================
        
        
        I have been putting it off for ages, it's been on my to-do list for
       @@ -26,7 +27,8 @@ work under wayland. These were Qutebrowser (Browsing), Performance
        Portfolio (Accounting) and Calibre (Ebooks), result!
        
        
       -── DWM REPLACEMENT
       +DWM REPLACEMENT
       +---------------
        
        First, the window manager! As it turns out there is a wayland port of
        dwm called dwl, there seems to be a few trivial changes, but they are
       @@ -45,7 +47,8 @@ building it myself, this felt like a plus after many many years of
        compiling from source.
        
        
       -── ST ALTERNATIVE
       +ST ALTERNATIVE
       +--------------
        
        I kinda hate st, truth be told. You need to add in a few patches to the
        build as out of the box it's very limiting. So on that I was happy to
       @@ -64,7 +67,8 @@ it was trivial to set up. Interestingly, the out of the box config would
        have been fine, only thing I really changed were the colours and font.
        
        
       -── DMENU
       +DMENU
       +-----
        
        This one I spent most of my time researching and testing out various
        alternatives. At first, I was just going to use rofi but soon found out
       @@ -81,7 +85,8 @@ done. So simple, love it.
        > export BEMENU_OPTS="-p '> ' --tb '#000000' --tf '#ffffff' --hf '#444444'"
        
        
       -── THOUGHTS?
       +THOUGHTS?
       +---------
        
        So far I have had no crashes or any issues at all. One thing that I have
        noticed is MPV playback seems way smoother and scrolling in Qutebrowser
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/009.txt b/txt/009.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [009]
        
        
       -                ── A true cheap dumbphone, impossible? ──
       +A true cheap dumbphone, impossible?
       +===================================
        
        
        I have been on the lookout of a truly cheap dumb phone but trying to
       @@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ cost was around £60 ($75) 2 years ago. I really wish there was a cheap
        and truly dumbphone out there..
        
        
       -── SOURCES
       +SOURCES
       +-------
        
        >> https://thelightphone.com
        >> https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-pure
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/010.txt b/txt/010.txt
       @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
        [010]
        
        
       -                ── Convert MBOX to Maildir using FDM ──
       +Convert mbox to maildir using fdm
       +=================================
        
        
        I recently downloaded a bunch of old mailing list archives from Alpine
       @@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ then just run FDM with the above configuration file:
                $ fdm -f archive fetch
        
        
       -── SOURCES
       +SOURCES
       +-------
        
        >> https://github.com/nicm/fdm
        >> https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/users
 (DIR) diff --git a/txt/011.txt b/txt/011.txt
       @@ -2,15 +2,40 @@
        [011]
        
        
       -                ── I downgraded to a mini-pc ──
       +I downgraded to a mini-pc
       +=========================
        
        
       -I
       +I recently turned off my main pc, a homegrown setup I had been upgrading
       +over the years. It had quite a decent spec, AMD RX XT5700, Intel i7,
       +32Gb RAM, 3xSSDs and a NVM drives. I have mentioned in previous TXT
       +files I mainly use the command line apart from qutebrowser occasionally
       +so it was complete overkill. Not to mention the energy prices in north
       +Scotland being absurd, it was time to "downgrade".
        
       +I had a few options in mind, a good old Raspberry Pi, a 2nd hand
       +Thinkcentre or an off the shelf mini-pc. As you obviously gathered,
       +I went with the mini-pc, a beelink U59. The RPI are actually quite
       +costly now, hard to get. I also wanted an X86 architecture for using
       +Alpine Linux - my distro of choice these days. Apparently the
       +Thinkcentre can be quite loud too, so I ended up buying the U59 with the
       +500 GB SSD and 16 GB Ram for around £200 on Amazon.
        
       -── SOURCES
       +I installed Alpine Linux with no issues at all. I have a bootstrap
       +script for Alpine, so using this I was up and running with the foot
       +terminal open on sway 15 minutes later. The U59 is completely quiet, and
       +the max I have seen the temp get so far was 59C while playing Loom via
       +ScummVM. I had to compile ScummVM from source which took around 20
       +mintues. The power draw was sitting around 15 watts during this time.
       +
       +Really happy with it so far, will be interesting to see how long this
       +machine lasts for.
        
       ->> https://www.bee-link.com/catalog/product/index?id=334
        
       +SOURCES
       +-------
       +
       +>> https://www.bee-link.com/catalog/product/index?id=334
       +>> gopher://jay.scot/1/git/alpine-bootstrap/
        
        .EOF