Title: The Old Computer Challenge: day 6

	Title: The Old Computer Challenge: day 6
	Author: Solène
	Date: 15 July 2021
	Tags: openbsd life oldcomputerchallenge
	Description:

	# Report

	This is the 6th day of the challenge! Time went quite fast.

	# Mood

	I got quite bored two days ago because it was very frustrating to not
	be able to do everything I want. I wanted to contribute to OpenBSD but
	the computer is way to slow to do anything useful beyond editing files.

	Although, it got better yesterday, 5th day of the challenge, when I
	decided to move away from claws-mail and switch to neomutt for my
	emails. I updated claws-mail to version 4.0.0 freshly released and
	starting updating the OpenBSD package, but claws-mail switched to gtk3
	and it became too slow for the computer.

	I started using a mouse on the laptop and it made some tasks more
	enjoyable although I don't need it too much because most of my programs
	are in a console but every time I need the cursor it's more pleasant to
	use a mouse support 3 clicks + wheel.

	# Software

	The computer is the sum of its software. Here is a list of the
	software I'm using right now:

	* fvwm2: window manager, doesn't bug with full screen programs and is
	light enough and I like it.
	* neomutt: mail reader, I always hate mutt/neomutt because of the
	complexity of their config file, fortunately I had some memories of
	when I used it and I've been able to build a nice simple configuration
	script and took the opportunity to update my Neomutt cheatsheet
	article.
	* w3m: in my opinion it's the best web browser in terminal :) the
	bookmark feature works very great and using
	https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite for searches works perfectly fine. I
	use the flavor with image rendering support, however I have mixed
	feelings about it because pictures take time to download and render and
	will always render at their original size which is a pain most of the
	time.
	* keepassxc: my usual password manager, it has a cli command line to
	manage the entries from a shell after unlocking the database.
	* openttd: a game of legend that is relaxing and also very fun to play,
	runs fine after a few tweaks.
	* mastodon: tootstream but it's quite limited sometimes and I also
	access Mastodon on my phone with Tusky from F-droid, they make a great
	combination.
	* rednotebook: I was already using it on this computer when it was
	known as the "offline computer", this program is a diary where I write
	my day when I feel bad (anger, depressed, bored), it doesn't have much
	entries in it but it really helps me to write things down. While the
	program is very heavy and could be considered bloated for the purpose
	of writing about your day, I just like it because it works and it looks
	nice.

	I'm often asked how I deal with youtube, I just don't, I don't use
	youtube so problem is solved :-) I use no streaming services at home.

	# Breaking the challenge

	I had to use my regular computer to order a pizza because the stupid
	pizza company doesn't want to take orders by phone and they are the
	only pizza shop around... :( I could have done using my phone but I
	don't really trust my phone web browser to support all the operations
	of the process.

	I could easily handle using this computer for more time if I hadn't so
	many requirements on web services, mostly for ordering products I can't
	find locally (pizza doesn't count here) and I hate using my phone for
	web access because I hate smartphone most of the time.

	If I had used an old i386 / amd64 computer I would have been able to
	use a webkit browser even if it was slow, but on PowerPC the state of
	web browser with javascript is complicated and currently none works for
	me on OpenBSD.