@gemlog
You are certainly right about the fact that we don't have to do it out of necessity anymore. Hardware is so powerful that I rarely have use for all that computing power. Even my phone has an octacore CPU and 8 gigs of RAM, do I ever use that? I don't think so, but I do like that it can idle for a week on a single charge, like those old non-smart phones could.
With computers… I'm not that old, but I do remember those 80286 and 8 MHz (or something like that) frequencies, and that was a great computer 😁
The hardware I have now is dated, but honestly it's like supercomputers to me. 16 GBs of RAM I have in both of my laptops isn't plenty by today's standards but even that is mostly used for filesystem cache when I do everyday tasks. Disks in all my systems are like 60% free. Again, I do appreciate that my laptop can last 4 hours on a tiny battery it has.
I have never used DEs, not out of necessity, although in the nineties it did matter, but I just never got them, I figured out early on that s simple WM with keybindings done right to launch your most used apps (and you can just open the terminal and run those that you don't use often) gets the job done for me. AFAIR I've been using WindowMaker and fluxbox/openbox at the time. Later I got into music and into Macs. Because that is where all the cool stuff was. I had a brief period of using Windows too, but nowadays both macOS (or OSX? or is it MacOS X? Whatever they call it now) and Windows are garbage, ease of use and complexity-wise and UI design is pretty bad too 🤭. I don't like using those, they make computers unenjoyable to me. So I'm back to Linux and now I have even more minimalistic and simple things I can use, now I mostly use Void with Sway or DWM and a set of mostly TUI apps. I don't even have to keep Firefox open all the time now. I think that there's a certain trend: things like Gemini, suckless software, and resurgence of popularity of TUI apps — there is demand for that. And I do enjoy using things that are simple enough that I get how they work thoroughly. Like this script. I could of course have used some pre-packaged solution, but I think that it won't even save me any time because I have to figure out how to make it run and make some sort of config anyway. This thing — it's not like I have spent a week on making it work, in fact it took me under an hour, but it's literally just plain HTTP requests and writing strings to a pipe, there is no complicated framework in the mix, and I even have control of every aspect of how it looks because I wrote that HTML file myself 😅
What's not to like about it? 😎
@m0xee
You are certainly right about the fact that we don't have to do it out of necessity anymore. Hardware is so powerful that I rarely have use for all that computing power. Even my phone has an octacore CPU and 8 gigs of RAM, do I ever use that? I don't think so, but I do like that it can idle for a week on a single charge, like those old non-smart phones could.
With computers… I'm not that old, but I do remember those 80286 and 8 MHz (or something like that) frequencies, and that was a great computer 😁
The hardware I have now is dated, but honestly it's like supercomputers to me. 16 GBs of RAM I have in both of my laptops isn't plenty by today's standards but even that is mostly used for filesystem cache when I do everyday tasks. Disks in all my systems are like 60% free. Again, I do appreciate that my laptop can last 4 hours on a tiny battery it has.
I have never used DEs, not out of necessity, although in the nineties it did matter, but I just never got them, I figured out early on that s simple WM with keybindings done right to launch your most used apps (and you can just open the terminal and run those that you don't use often) gets the job done for me. AFAIR I've been using WindowMaker and fluxbox/openbox at the time. Later I got into music and into Macs. Because that is where all the cool stuff was. I had a brief period of using Windows too, but nowadays both macOS (or OSX? or is it MacOS X? Whatever they call it now) and Windows are garbage, ease of use and complexity-wise and UI design is pretty bad too 🤭. I don't like using those, they make computers unenjoyable to me. So I'm back to Linux and now I have even more minimalistic and simple things I can use, now I mostly use Void with Sway or DWM and a set of mostly TUI apps. I don't even have to keep Firefox open all the time now. I think that there's a certain trend: things like Gemini, suckless software, and resurgence of popularity of TUI apps — there is demand for that. And I do enjoy using things that are simple enough that I get how they work thoroughly. Like this script. I could of course have used some pre-packaged solution, but I think that it won't even save me any time because I have to figure out how to make it run and make some sort of config anyway. This thing — it's not like I have spent a week on making it work, in fact it took me under an hour, but it's literally just plain HTTP requests and writing strings to a pipe, there is no complicated framework in the mix, and I even have control of every aspect of how it looks because I wrote that HTML file myself 😅
What's not to like about it? 😎
@m0xee
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My backstory would be incomplete without mentioning that I have a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse lying next to my bed — that is what I had used to control mpv running on a laptop hooked up to a TV in front of my bed when I didn't have this web-based remote control. So if I wanted to do as little as possible I could've just kept using that, but I came up with "I mostly use it to play/pause and rewind 10 seconds back, why don't I use my phone for that?" — so now I have it 😄
@gemlog So, yes, you're right it's just a hobby/fun DIY stuff — just as good as any other hobby stuff. Likewise I can use any of my laptops as a Bluetooth speaker. I barely use it, but I know I can 😂
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