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.

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2231·
    2 months ago

    Thatâ™s⠀rea​lly cool. � Ꭰо уо𝗎 𝗍һі𝗇𝗄 уо𝗎’ӏӏ со𝗇𝗍і𝗇𝗎е ᖯ𝗋о𝗐ѕі𝗇𝗀 ӏі𝗄е 𝗍һа𝗍?

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      1591·
      2 months ago

      Fuck you, you really made me check on my phone if all my text looks like this :(
      (Your comment showed up “fine”, by the way)

      Yes, I think I will. Not exclusively, of course. But starting Firefox in Wayland just takes a key combo and 5 seconds if needed.

    • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
      37·
      2 months ago

      Not OP, but some of them have non-JS version, in addition to the regular JS version; but yeah, a lot of sites are broken.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      24·
      2 months ago

      Surprisingly, a lot. And usually they’re the more informative and less commercial ones.
      Most websites that only show a “please enable Javascript” banner I just leave again. Very few I do need, for those I have a key combo that starts a window manager with maximized Firefox on another TTY.

    • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Websites from alternative networks such as Onion, Freenet, I2P and GNUnet, where speed and privacy are a must-have. Onion webchats, for example, uses neverending-loading with iframes/HTML frames (and another frame/iframe with a standard HTML form), so to not depend on JS.

      At the surface web (clearnet), however, it’s harder to find. Even the remaining old sites, from blogosphere and personal tilde websites (those whose URL contained a tilde “~” followed by an username) have some degree of JS.

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
        5·
        2 months ago

        Even the remaining old sites, from blogosphere and personal tilde websites (those whose URL contained a tilde “~” followed by an username) have some degree of JS.

        Although those websites usually work totally fine without js

  • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    I may get hate for this, but… I do this a fair bit because I prefer TUIs for a lot of stuff, and also end up doing a lot of things in emacs because I usually have it open anyway…

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      13·
      2 months ago

      And I understand why some people are fonts enthusiasts, now.

      On the console, you only have 256 colors and 1 font to customize your “desktop”.

  • electricprism@lemmy.ml
    17·
    2 months ago

    Sometimes it’s nice to put the ADHD away and just have simple fucking interfaces without all the stupid distractions.

    This was my exact experience browsing the Social Media on gemini:// – it was glorious how less can actually be more.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 months ago

    image editing

    imagemagick for basic transformations/compression/conversions, CLI (locally hosted) AI for the shops

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      8·
      2 months ago

      yes it only shows the filename of an image. But you can set it up to open images in an external image viewer when you click on it.

        • superkret@feddit.orgOP
          5·
          2 months ago

          Yes. I have absolutely no idea what its purpose or use case is.
          On a TTY, it has no mouse click support. It also has no keyboard navigation support in general. So how am I supposed to navigate websites?
          On a terminal inside a graphical environment it’s completely useless, cause I’m in a graphical environment and can just use Firefox.

          Seriously, if anyone is using Browsh or Carbonyl productively, I’d love to know for what.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      10·
      2 months ago

      The default video output device of a Linux TTY is the framebuffer.
      I have no issues viewing images and PDF documents, or watching videos.

  • bruhSoulz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Lol so cool. My fav text apps are toot for mastodon and maybe gomuks or iamb for matrix/element. Also what Lemmy app r u using?

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      21·
      2 months ago

      I tried w3m, lynx, links and elinks, which all failed cause they don’t support JavaScript, which is necessary to log in.
      Then I tried Browsh and Carbonyl, which failed cause they both don’t accept mouse clicks in a TTY and offer no keyboard navigation.

      Then I tried Neonmodem Overdrive, a CLI fediverse browser, which I just couldn’t get to show any posts.

      In the end, @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org gave me the hint that some instances have alternative “old-reddit-like” frontends that allow logging in without JavaScript.
      And my home instance with old.feddit.org is one of them. So now I’m using links, cause it’s the most user-friendly text browser IMO.

      • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        Not sure if you know, but you can setup links to pipe images (and whatever other media you want) to external programs through the Associations menu.

        Afterwards pressing Enter or I when an image is selected, a new option “open” will appear.

    • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      OP shared the tools they used, you’ve probably missed it.

      - browser - links

      - image viewer - fbi

      - PDFs - fbpdf

      - music - cmus

      - movies -mplayer

      - e-mail - alpine

      - documents - vim, latex

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    7·
    2 months ago

    You get a similar feeling using the console a lot in full screen. It’s just a very peaceful, focused experience.

    • Draghetta@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      That’s actually a good point. I’m a TUI guy as much as the next one but I normally use full screen terminal and tmux instead of larping the 90s.

      Deeply respect the hustle - I was also X-free in the early 00s - but I wonder what is the advantage of going raw tty instead of full screen terminal in a wm

        • superkret@feddit.orgOP
          4·
          2 months ago

          Try it if you’re interested. It worked for enough other people that the dev closed my issue.
          I couldn’t get it to show any content, on 3 different distros and 4 different home instances.
          Maybe I’m just really dumb, though.