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Title: Slowly moving back to plaintext
Date: August 24, 2026

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  As nice as rich text is, I've slowly been moving back to
using plaintext for nearly everything again. Markdown for
my notes, pseudo-wiki, and writings. HTML written in emacs
instead of Dreamweaver. Using `slrn` for newsgroups, and
`snownews` for my RSS feeds. I use `lynx` for gopher and
some web browsing[^0], and `av98` for gemini stuff. Hell,
I've even been considering going back to LaTeX[^1].

  To some degree, I could probably live in a terminal again
like I did for almost a decade. I don't entirely like that
idea, but if it came down to it, I think it'd be possible.
Part of me wants to get a Raspberry Pi 500+ and monitor to
set up at my desk, but that'd be wasteful right now. I've
already got a system I can use...technically[^2].

  Thing is, I'm still quite happy with my MacBook Pro and
MacOS 10.6.8. I'm using emacs 25.1, and it works just fine.
All of my other stuff works well still. Just because it's
a little old doesn't mean it's useless. There's only been
a couple of packages in MELPA[0] that I've been itching to
grab again (mostly elpher and elfeed), but maybe it'll be
a good way to get into learning Emacs Lisp for backporting.
I mean... I like my retro computing platforms. Might as
well /get with the times/ that they're from, so to speak.

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[^0]: I intentionally make my personal website a fully
      lynx-friendly site, and encourage those who are part
      of the indie web and web revival to do the same.

[^1]: LaTeX2e is still a familiar old friend, even when I'm
      not particularly in the mood to deal with its
      shenanigans.

[^2]: I have my Dell Latitude E6430, but the GPU is not
      supported by many distros, and getting its weird dual
      GPU setup working manually is nearly impossible.

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[0]: https://melpa.org/