# Day 3
Okay, I think I'm going to have to cheat here if I want NetBSD on
"richmond" before the trip. I'm going to have to break out a modern
laptop with USB 3 ports. USB 2.0 speeds are absolutely killing me.
Thankfully, the cheating worked, and NetBSD is being happily
installed on that eeePC, as it should. In the past, 10 gave weird
Wi-Fi errors, but it might be an issue of the i386 iso that might
have been used rather than the i386 img that I opted to use instead.
I also figured out how to switch the control key and the function
key in the BIOS of my ThinkPad. Also, I am thinking on making a
switch to NetBSD on this ThinkPad after the trip. OpenBSD's console
is weird about color. Despite tmux being configured to use color
on SDF and color being used other places, color does not show. I
think I remember changing some settings in OpenBSD to get around
this but eh. I'd rather just use the OS where I don't have to do
that.
I know this is rather minor, but I like using console, and I
generally like NetBSD's console best!
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*New* Mon Jul 15 08:55:53 EDT 2024
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I'm noticing the effects on my phone's battery as I use it as
primarily a terminal. Before this, my phone would regularly go to
40%, 30% at the end of the day. Now it goes down to maybe 75%.
Based on what I found, Tor has been a battery hog, and I hardly
use it. I'll probably uninstall it shortly after I publish this.
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*New* Mon Jul 15 12:56:28 EDT 2024
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I'm really enjoying my eeePC again. It's a wonderful little thing,
and I am reminded of how absolutely beautiful plain text can be.
Despite the Mastodon polls I had conducted to great amusement, this
secret *fourth* thing gets to go on the trip.
I will bring a modern computer if there is an emergency, and I will
have my phone, which has beeen relegated to "quite useful portable
terminal". There is a nice video[0] by Art on TilVids about Termux,
the Android application I use to achieve this.
I'm also figuring out vi a bit more. It's very powerful when you
combine it with text filtering. Sadly, ed(1) can't do it so well.
I see why ex became so powerful, and later became vi. I may even
switch to ex!
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*New* Mon Jul 15 21:48:17 EDT 2024
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I'm using ex to write this. I love using line editors, and while
vi is absolutely a good visual editor, I find that it isn't normal
for me to need a visual editor, but I do need some of ex's more
advanced features often enough. So, I'm using ex.
I also asked people on the Fediverse[1] about a console program to
use on NetBSD that didn't require X11. A couple[2] people[3]
suggested MPD, which was interesting. I had been curious about it,
but never really saw the point on a desktop system where I could
use mpv instead and have less hassle. Unfortunately, it ultimately
depended on X11, which I deliberately did not install on the eeePC
to save space.
Others[4] yet[5] suggested mpg123, and it worked perfectly. I could
have it stream internet radio on one console and be on SDF on
another console. Perfect! Just what I needed. :-)
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[0]:
https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/fcaf638c-c11a-4c3e-a3d5-9fa5c9112897
[1]:
https://bitbang.social/@sinza/112791662861335509
[2]:
https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/112791683715545314
[3]:
https://mastodon.art/@RussSharek/112791684844925598
[4]:
https://merveilles.town/@d6/112791688433744449
[5]:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@bentsukun/112791682133828678
(yes I know he suggested mpg321 but afaik the differences don't
seem that big to me)
