Just wondering how hard it'd be to do this. I'm posting from Lynx in my TTY and it's a bit difficult to navigate this webpage but I figured it out. I'm only using 138 megs of RAM and asides from muh vido gayms I wonder if it's possible to do everything you'd need to do on a computer from IRC to web dev solely in the CLI with a few TTYs or sum other tools that I'm not aware of
Would appreciate some advice here. I'm very interested in this ideal form of minimalism

What's the scope of your activity? How would you read a PDF that may/may not be just scanned images? Or design a PCB? OCR still can't handle books for some reason, and forget it if you want to read a book with multicolumn typesetting, like in The Art Of Electronics. How would you do web development without a normal browser?

Most things can be done in command line. IRC, XMPP, RSS, Email, LaTeX, calendar scheduling, listening to music, burning/ripping cd's, torrenting. If you're really dedicated you could also include very basic video and image editing with suckless blind and imagemagick. Web dev is probably out of the question unless you make websites for lynx only lol.

Yeah weell some things like pcb design still need a visual editor but that's not the point of this thread right now. Nah, cli gets every other thing I use daily no problem. OCR sucks when it comes to handwriting tho.

Terry, came over and looked at the PDF on my desktop while we, waited for his pheasant, hunt to finish up last weeek. He was like “man if they could just get some sort of tty renderer that handles all this stuff decently” :p

nah the, pcb is fine with a program like gerbip but for manual tweaking of the schematic and traces, you'd still need, a GUI

hahahahahahaha "CLI/TTY" hahahahahahaha

im fucking 12 and i need to kill myself

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i lol'd

naw, schematics and traces in gerbip are usually for manual tweaking too, just not as precsie as what you'd get with an actual editor for it. the app doesn't have a good way to export or import with high enough quality for a human to trace again. but it's all that's needed, for a lot of designs and doesn't slow everything down.

nah, most PDFs can be read with a tool like qpdf, for PDFs that aren't, it's not like I have to do OCR on my phone, I just open the file and read it. and if you're using a tool that doesn't have a decent layout viewer or some kind of simple markup tool for annotations, fine, you can try tippdf or some such. it's not like the problem is so bad it'd have to be a different way of life for it to be an issue. i'm still using the freezer in the garage to keep stuff that needs to be kept cold, i'm not going to be dropping it and switching to an icebox. the CLI's just not where it's supposed to be yet.

yeah i tried gerbip, ended up throwing it in the trash and just did the whole project by hand, still better than a GUI tool though, got cleaner traces.

Had a weeklong trial with gerbip where the GUI made me question my life choices, but CLI-only was rough. Still not perfect though, some PDFs just resist even with tesseract in there somewhere.