2020-03-11 - The beautiful simplicity of textmode 
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Aaw yeah... Every time i'm working in my simple black-and-white 
text mode console, i feel i can relax. It's like a mini-holiday 
from the visual overload of attention grabbing crap from 'normal' 
graphical environments of the computers i use for work.

As i've written before, the black-and-white console is very 
appealing to me, and even just the act of typing little words in a 
simple editor pleases me. As you can see I'm pretty happy just 
typing away nonsense.

My personal computer exists of a fairly simple debian install 
running either dwm or tmux to manage my screens. And there's not 
much more i need. Working on this little laptop is great. Despite 
that it is now more than 12 years old, i can do all the things i 
can think of...

Working in textmode is a great help here i suppose. Unlike all the 
graphical nonsense, CLI environments are lean and mean, and behave 
snappy on just any simple system. At the moment i can't think of 
any reason why i'd ever need another computer.

I'm typing here now, in nano, the editor of my choice. I like 
simple editors and can't memorize more than 3 shortcuts, so nano 
suits me well. In the background moc player is playing some tracker 
music from the nineties i've gathered from modarchive.org. 
Everything is simple and lightweight, and i'm happy.

I like the console font i got on my debian machine. I haven't 
configured anything, it's just the default font. And every time i 
strike a key, immediately a little white character pops up on my 
black screen. This way of computering suits me very well.

This is a weird kind of fetish though. :)