Everything I Use

I dislike systemd. And I like the simplicity of OpenRC. So this is a nice pick for me. It is pretty much Arch without systemd.

Here is some more constructive reasons on why to dislike systemd.

My personal takeaway is systemd is trying to be everything when its just supposed to be a init system. And also it assimilates Mount, Sudo, and Socat.

I also have the Arch Linux repos added to my install. Some software I want to use is neither in the Artix main repos or the AUR.

I Love a tiling window manager. And I like tabbed windows. I3 is the best fit for me. Wayland doesn’t work very well on my machine. Mainly when i’m in VR and in games like VRChat or Resonite. My terminal wont open. Urxvt, Librewolf, and Discord only render when its small. When its bigger it has a Graphical Stroke.

I’ll probably make another blog post about this too.

I may also try getting tabs in DWM or AwesomWM.

A Compositor adds stuff like transparency, blur, and rounded borders for windows. I mainly use xcompmgr because things were weirdly slow with picom. But will switch to picom.

I use the terminal to do basically Everything. Most programs I list here and server management I do is through the terminal. TUI means Terminal User Interface.

My primary terminal is Wezterm. I like it because it uses Lua for configs and supports Sixel and the Kitty protocol for images.

My secondary is Urxvt. It has the best memeory management I found so far and can do fake transparency which just renders your wallpaper behind it.

It’s C. It’s fast. It’s not GNU. I also use vi mode in all shells I use. I like visual mode and word navigation

I’m a programmer who post their projects. Of course I use git.

Pretty much everything I make I use NeoVim and recently Vis. Mostly programming. I’m writing this page in Vis right now.

Unlike other text editors, you have different modes you switch between. You start off in normal mode. Where you can navigate ← h / ↓ j / ↑ k / → l. And can navigate words with w, b and e. You can do actions with these motions, for instance delete a line dd. Delete 3 lines d3j. Delete 3 words d3w. And alias these to macros.

Typically you do more with these but to do so is. Press qwd3jq. Then do @w. Or to do it more times 3@w

Vis does multi line or editing multiple places a little different than Vim. You use multiple cursors instead of visual line or visual block mode. You can just do C-J or C-K to get multiple cursors above/below your current. Or search with x/query/ and it will give you multiple cursors at each result. I like multi cursor more.

Vis is smaller than NeoVim or vim because it does not have VimScript (Vim). A Domain Specific Language. Or legacy code (NeoVim) that makes the project bigger than it needs to be. It also doesn’t have good splits, tiling, or tabs encouraging you to use your DE/WM or multiplexer.

Plugins I use are.

for tiling i just use tmux.

NeoVim is the previous editor I used. I still use NeoVim sometimes if I want to use my DAP. But I will be switching to just using GDB.

It can do splits and tabs

I use pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse, and pipewire-jack. I’ts good and it just works.. Mostly. I do have this minor issue where when my CPU is being overused the audio crackles. But overall it just works™

Pretty much just a TUI local wiki viewer using FZF and W3M. I also added the arch wiki.

Displays the key being pressed. Useful when screen sharing.

I dont use numen very often but its still pretty cool. It allows you to press keys using Dotool or XDotool and run commands using voice commands.

Works on X11 too.

What I use to launch apps. I can also pretty easily make scripts that gives me my own menu selections for this and do things with it.

I just press Windows key + d to open this ui and then type lib hit Enter and librewolf opens. It sorts by most used and loosely search’s what you type. I also have Ctrl + J/K for up and down.

Example cat test.txt | urlview.sh

just a shell script that takes stdin and gets just urls. this is in my dotfiles.

I follow news RSS feeds using NewsBoat. RSS is pretty much just a file on a web server that is just XML. And RSS feed reader’s can look download these pages and track what articles you have viewed.

I have this setup to use URLView to pull urls from a feed.

Other RSS feed readers have a much easier to use GUI’s.

I use a alias in my dotfiles to get the YouTube RSS Feed of any YouTube channel. here

Example echo "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOBfHd00-1HBu8bwXV63OSw" | get_channel_id

https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/wivrn/

What I use to play vr. I use the AUR package and other than having to remove the systemd build flags. Runs fine. Though a VR view would be nice.

CLI Application

On my dotfiles. I use RSync to backup all my stuff to my backup drive, Homelab, and servers.

While RSync is very good. It’s required to be on the server to work. RClone works with basically every type of file transfer.

Theme Setter is a small bash script I use to change my theme and a wallpaper wrapper script to use the same command to set my wallpaper on any Desktop Environment/Window Manager.

Terminal image viewer that I use aside from the Kitty Protocol.

FZF is a Amazing tool! It allows you to loosely search through any text by line. You can Do things like have a list of items, select that item, and do something with that selection.

By default. Just running FZF will use the files in the current directory and every directory inside allowing you to quickly search files.

I use it in most of my scripts I make.

FZF Thumb is a script which will list files in a directory like normal FZF but will generate thumbnails using Chafa.

gen-thumb-md generates a markdown file that list files in the current directory and generates thumbnails and list that too.

This I use A LOT. Youtube Playlist Cli is a YouTube playlist in a SQLite3 database. I have 3 ways of viewing it.

TMUX. A Terminal Multiplexer. Allows you to split, tab, window, and create multiple terminal sessions that you can detach from and come back to later even in the TTY. Useful for if your terminal keeps crashing or ssh.

I also use a slightly modified Primagen TMUX sessionizer to quickly create a new tmux session at one of my project directories using FZF.

System Stats + Task manager but in the terminal. Better than Htop.

Tis guud browser. Simple. Does web stuff. Just works™. Turn on cookies.

I use a User.js script to change a lot of the settings for librewolf.

Extensions I use.

i have this css. Everything shall return to square

I have a alias in my .config/.profile that runs run.sh in my dotfiles to deploy my dotfiles from my downloaded repository.

Language learning software that uses flash cards and timing to give you flash cards just about at the time that you would forget that word to strengthen your memory of it. Useful for learning the vocabulary of a language.

The pack I have for Japanese has pitch accent, image and audio examples, written and spoken versions.

Recomended Anki Decks from JouzuJuls. i’m only using the first one right now.

tis gud and small launcher. It just works™

The password manager I use. It has a random password generator built in. And it has a offline ui and database and if I wanted to I could start a server for it in my homelab. I don’t. I just copy the .kdbx file where I need it.

I2P | i2p wiki | Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil and I2P have different priorities. I2P focuses on privacy and anominity. While Yggdrasil focuses on anti censorship. Yggdrasil’s network speed is faster and I use it for some servers.

There are interesting websites on I2P. Like memes.

Mumble is pretty much TeamSpeak3 but smaller, not proprietary. Does client to server encryption. And isn’t a freaking web browser. Like discord is. It does voice chat only and has temporary side chat for text and images. It does primarily one thing and it does it well.

Downside is unlike discord, it doesn’t have multiple spread out servers to handle voice lag by having servers you connect to close to you. So if you have bad internet or the server has a bad connection there will be lag.

Using Yggdrasil can surprisingly sometimes reduce lag.

Unlike Matrix, which syncs all messages in a group chat to all home servers. XMPP is way simpler. I just like it more for it simplicity. Never had a issue with messages not being delivered.

And I personally don’t like how end to end encryption works on matrix. Each person you are talking to should verify new keys you add to your account. Not you use first account to verify your second account.

Asciidoc is what I’m writing this in right now. It’s like Markdown. But has better standardization. As a example ill put some raw Asciidoc in a box below. AsciiDoctor can export to html and PDF’s natively. If I need more I can use Pandoc.

It can also do graphs

I use CloudFlare because DDOS protected proxy. I will move away from this eventually.

Openrc, Musl, It just works™. download gcompat if you need gnu c libraries.

The git server I use for public facing repository. Doesnt allow git clone --depth 1 which sucks. All my repos are pretty small so not the biggest deal.

Video host. Like youtube but self hosted and peer to peer comments. Like Mastodon.

A small server for streaming. Like twitch. I can do zero latency streaming which depending on the network can be as low as 1 second. I can effectively screen share.

Firewall.. not much else to explain. Much simpler to just use UFW(Un Complicated Firewall).

The web host server I use on my home lab. I also use this to reverse proxy everything and slap TLS on them.

edex. A electron(browser) terminal emulator that looks like cool hacker man. The on screen keyboard works with touch screen and you can change the keyboard layout.