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	Rice Update - Sept. 28, 2019
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I've been working on this rice for quite a while now. It's my
first linux rice. Dual booting Windows and Linux on an old
HP Notebook 15 I got on New Years Day back in 2012 for like
$400.

I installed Kubuntu as my distrobution because I wanted to
see how I liked the KDE Plasma desktop environment, but I
quickly discovered i3 and switched over. After many months
running gapless, I switched again to i3-gaps, and that's
where I am now.

I use urxvt as my terminal, and have pywal generating
colorschemes based on whatever wallpaper I choose.

I like using terminal based applications whenever possible
(preferably with vim bindings!), so I have many apps with
that in mind. Ranger for file browsing, Calcurse for a
calendar and Todo list, ncmpcpp for music, mps-youtube for
browsing YouTube, neomutt for email, nmtui for managing
Wi-Fi connections, lynx for browsing gopherspace. And of
course, I use vim as my editor of choice!

In terms of non-tui/cli programs, I use qutebrowser when I'm
not using lynx, and firefox when all else fails. sxiv for
viewing images, as well as a custom wallpaper choosing script
I made. Discord for when I need that (although I usually just
use the mobile app on my phone). Tusk is my Evernote client,
and I use it very frequently given that I write a lot. For
word processing, I've been using AbiWord, although I think I
might look into a replacement for that in the future.

You can see a screenshot of my main workspace under the link to
this update on my tech page!

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I've been looking into buying a new laptop recently. This one
does pretty well for a cheap machine that's almost 8 years old,
But the fan is like a hair dryer under even a moderate load. I
think I'm going to splurge a bit and buy a Dell XPS 15 for
around $1000. My friend has one and it seems like exactly what
I'm looking for. I'd like to install Arch Linux on that
machine, and build a whole new rice from scratch. Although I'm
sure I'll port over some scripts and files that I've come to
rely on, or like the look/flow of.

If you have any questions about my rice, be it software or
hardware, feel free to send me an email!

Email: nynergy@sdf.org