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Title: Getting Used to the Terminal Again
Date: September 14, 2026

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  I have to admit, it's taking a lot of my mental energy to
get used to using the terminal again. Even with TUIs and
easy access to manuals, I keep getting things crossed when
I go to use a key combo or simple command. I've had to take
more and more notes, rather than simply focusing on my work
and using the tools as tools. That's not necessasrily a bad
thing, just somewhat exhausting when I'm already dealing
with a lot in general.

  I'm not giving up. Far from it. It's just that I'm trying
to exercise more patience than I've had in a while. If I'm
going to set up some more retro stuff, I'm going to need
paitence to get configs and software working on old PCs
and emulation. Especially if I'm going to try and do some
things with FreeDOS, given my rusty DOS skills.

  At least I've gotten some more tools compiled, and I got
more of my ebooks put into the tablet one of my mates gave
me. Said tablet isn't logged into anything, and remains my
NewPipe device and ebook reader now. I follow few channels
in NewPipe, so most of it is for the books. Just means more
room and battery life.

  On the positive side, I've begun learning things about
pandoc and ImageMagick that I never knew before. Like the
ImageMagick GUI, how pandoc handles PDF rendering with
different LaTeX engines... It's been kinda fun, and briefly
takes away some of the frustration.

  I also got to read "The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick"
thanks to the Internet Archive[0]. It's been so helpful
that I'm thinking of trying to get a copy off eBay once I
have the spare funds, just to have an offline copy I can
get to. It'll look nice next to several of my other books.


  In one parting comment, I have this to say: 1080p has no
right to be on screens smaller than 15 inches at distance.
My eyes are sighing with relief after pulling out another
monitor to hook up to my laptop just to keep working. The
eye drops help as well.

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[0]: https://archive.org/details/definitiveguidet0000stil