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Digital minimalism 2.0 (hardcore mode)

Sun 25 Apr 2021 23:42:07

Most recently, I gave my daughter a Ryzen laptop, because she

I began to master the Krita editor in conjunction with a graphical tablet. She has

I removed an old iMac on core2duo for work needs, with 4GB of RAM.

For me, not a radical loss of productivity, tk. new

the working tools are still ssh and the browser. So I don’t

I really felt the limitations, refreshed the distributor and rolled the i3 into battle.

While I was thinking about writing a text about optimizing the approach to technique, the situation

sharply worsened! The other day, a laptop was thrown into the work back room,

"who can't do the job." Taking the poor man out of the box and

having turned it in my hands (I had to google on the hardware), the patient turned out to be

Chinese clone of MacBook Air, about two gigabytes of RAM and Intel Atom (4x1.3).

Win10 was installed on it with an encrypted disk, this of course

the murder is complete. Took the poor man home, downloaded Fedora 33 (Oh yeah! Now

this is an excuse to point your finger after all this talk about inclusiveness and

RMS. I support Stallman, but I'm too lazy to change habits even in

distributions. I love Fedora, and generally have a good relationship with RedHat,

despite these differences. I hope the public will forgive me my

weakness. I plan to write about this a little later).

The system is deployed, cleaned up the unnecessary, turned off the X's.

Restarted .. The system eaten 220MB of RAM with the access to the network / against

400MB when running x with i3.

I measured the battery consumption for the same tasks,

no significant difference was found, the Xs themselves do not take

a lot of resource.

But it became interesting to go a little further than the usual environment, and find out - there is

is life (on Mars) in the console.

My modern needs are not great, but still I'm used to not

bothering to deploy the instrument on the electron (the same

riot \ element). Even without being limited by resources, I have not

changed the vpn client pritunl to a regular openvpn line, albeit creepy

I was furious, seeing as the client on the electron eats up 150MB of memory.

Left without X's, ordeals began in links2 to collect the necessary

utilities for github.

So I share the recipes:

Software:

dwarf). Although in a couple of days spin i3 will be released, which is in beta before

34th release. It will be very interesting to touch it.

The tmux config was originally taken from here:

https://github.com/samoshkin/tmux-config.git

Modified it a bit. I'm very used to the author's bindings via "S."

although partly I suffer from the habit of jumping to the beginning of the line.

There is also a funny thing about browsh - a console browser that can

graphics, but it renders with firelis and sends it to the console, which affects

on memory consumption, and in the standard console (without true colors) in this

doesn't make much sense.

And in X's, I suddenly remembered the now forgotten and seems to be abandoned

dillo!

bugs of all kinds of graph mailers. I got Zen in working with mail!)

browser unnecessarily).

the only bug (or I can't find keying) is how to get back from the field

entering into contacts?

Weechat + Matrix plugin - replaced the working matrix client, where they drop me

notifications and where all work correspondence is conducted.

toot tui - does not need introduction, although I use it extremely

rarely.

The only software that I have not been able to replace so far is the client

Mumble. I somehow saw that there is a console client in python, but I have

no sound came up and I decided to postpone this question.

I also had to strain on the working moment, tk. my monitoring

on Grafana draws beautiful graphs that are inaccessible from this angle.

What made me think, incl. about optimizing the working resource. Quickly

wrote scripts that parse important information in html and collect in

one page. Which allowed links to look at the current picture.

Summing up the experiment:

There is not much difference, as I said, console or i3. I can't even

to assert now that it is more convenient in specific dachas. And most importantly, the console

is still suitable for solving ALL modern tasks, the main thing

pick up the tools! And the indicator for the "discarded" equipment, in stock

resource more than three quarters of the maximum and 5.5 hours of work from

batteries! with a default kernel - I think this is just fine.

OS: Fedora 33 (Thirty Three) x86_64

Host: NB42 1.0

Kernel: 5.8.15-301.fc33.x86_64

Uptime: 15 hours, 42 mins

Packages: 1583 (rpm)

Shell: bash 5.0.17

Resolution: 1366x768

Terminal: / dev / pts / 3

CPU: Intel Atom Z3735F (4) @ 1.832GHz

GPU: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx / Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display

Memory: 229MiB / 1918MiB