AI bullshit, too.

I’m suggesting the BeOS successor.

Haiku, anyone?

I gave up on notes platforms like this a couple of years ago. I just have a bunch of well-sorted Markdown files that I edit with nano on desktop and Markor on mobile.

I have several machines, a few of which I plan to reinstall sooner or later, so:

# System
Distro: Devuan GNU+Linux, Void Linux, NetBSD, Alpine Linux (near future), Guix (near future)
Init System: OpenRC, SysVinit, Shepherd (near future)
Window Manager: cwm, Fluxbox, Xfce, river-classic (near future), *TBD* (near future)
Shell: ksh93
Terminal: Alacritty, Sakura, foot, Xfce Terminal
Terminal Multiplexer: dvtm
Application Launcher: (WM builtin), rofi
Notification: dunst, Xfce Notifier
Compositor: Picom, XCompMgr, wlroots, Xfwm
Panel: Polybar, fbpanel, Xfce Panel, *TBD* (near future)
Audio: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS

# The Web
Web Browser: Tor Browser, Librewolf
Chat: Discord, Signal
VPN: IVPN

# File Management
File Browser: Midnight Commander, Nemo, PCManFM, Thunar
File Sharing: Syncthing, netcat, (physical disks)
Torrent: KTorrent, Deluge
Git CLI: Game Of Trees, Git

# File Creation/Modification
Text Editor: nano
Code Editor: nano
LaTeX Editor: TeXStudio
Image Editor: GIMP, GraphicsMagick
Video Editor: OpenShot, ffmpeg, blind
Audio Editor: Tenacity, KWave, ffmpeg
Document Editor: OpenOffice, nano

# File Viewing
Music Player: qmmp
Media Player: MPlayer
Image Viewer: imv
Document Viewer: Zathura

# Utility
Screenshotter: scrot, grim
Video Recorder: SSR, wf-recorder
Color Picker: gpick, GIMP, (custom script I keep losing)
Default Apps: XDG
Dotfile Manager: `cp -r ~/.* /path/to/disk`
Network TUI: nano, nmtui, nyx
Bluetooth TUI: bluetoothctl
Volume TUI: pactl, alsamixer, mixerctl
Disk Analyzer: Baobab
Wallpaper: Nitrogen, swaybg
Markdown Renderer: glow

# Gaming
Game Launcher: Steam, PrismLauncher

# Productivity
Flashcard: (physical cards)

I also plan to run Haiku on one of my older machines, but I can’t write down its components (e.g. init system, audio server), as it’s more monolithic than NetBSD or GNU/Linux.

To transfer files using netcat, it’s:

# Replace 1337 with any port number you like
nc -vl 1337 > file   # On recipient
nc -N 192.168.X.X 1337 < file   # On sender

Of course, things like compression and encryption need to be done beforehand; but one would hopefully use other means to transfer such files.

Depending on your drivers, you could give Guix a go. It’s not for everyone; but it’s decent, solid, and I used to run it on a 32-bit machine with 3GB of RAM.

If you do require nonfree drivers, there are guides to set it up using Nonguix; but I don’t know how well that works (I am yet to try it).

Not sure really. It’s been a slow progression for me from dead centre on the political compass over into anarcho-socialist territory.

That said, my taste for punk rock, the feeling of betrayal over my government’s stance on trans rights, and hearing about the shit that world governments get away with without repurcussion definititely helped.