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diff --git a/_pages/computing.html b/_pages/computing.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..4ed6960 --- /dev/null +++ b/_pages/computing.html @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +TITLE="Andrea Corsini's computing" +DESCRIPTION="List and comments about my daily personal computing, softwares and hardware I use." +--- +<h2>My Computing</h2> +<p>You can find a short list of the main softwares I use daily on + my personal drives. My personal daily computing regards browsing + the internet, checking my emails, occasional coding and + writing.</p> + +<p>Although I do nothing fancy and complicated, I do have some + requirements. The main concerns are about <b>control</b> + and <b>lightweightness</b>. I want to be in charge of the + computations that happen on my machine, what is running and what + is not. I want to control which software is using bandwidth. I + want to be able to check the behaviour of any of my software, + and potentially change it to confomr it to my needs. I want to + be the user, not to be used. These thoughts are pretty much what + the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation + (FSF)</a> and the <a href="">GNU project</a> is advocating.</p> + +<p>Not as important as the freedom on computing, I wish, whenever + possible, that the softwares I use are unbloated. I prefer + lightweight over fancy. That is why I don't mind to + use <em>Terminal User Interfaces (TUI)</em> over GUI when is + convinient to do so.</p> + +<dl> + <dt>Operative System</dt> + <dd>I normally run + <a href="https://www.archlinux.org">Arch</a>-based + distributions, because once installed, they contains only + essential softwares to get started, no unwanted bloat and I + can build my personal desktop directly. In particular I + run <a href="">Parabola GNU/Linux-libre</a>, an FSF-approved + 100% free (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw">as + in: freedom</a>) operating system. Not any computer can run a + 100% free distribution, due to nonfree firmware blobs (more + about it in the <a href="#hardware">hardware section</a> + below). So in other secondary laptops that cannot run + Parabola, my fallback is plain Arch Linux.</dd> + <dt>Window Manager/Desktop Environment</dt> + <dd>I don't have a desktop environment, except for the + collection of scripts, softwares and configurations that I have + put together. I run + the <a href="https://suckless.org/">Suckless</a> window + manager + called <a href="https://dwm.suckless.org/">dwm</a> with + several patches applied on it. Apart from the keybings for + main + programs, <a href="https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/">dmenu</a> + helps me to execute the other software installed. dmenu is + very dynamic and easy to be integrated with other scripts and + utility. For instance, I use it to select wireless + connections, device mounts, integration with the password + manager and so forth.</dd> + <dt>Shell and Terminal</dt> + <dd>I use Zsh as interactive shell. I normally run the shell + interpreter within <a href="https://st.suckless.org/">st - simple + terminal</a>. I applied some reasonable patches from + the <a href="https://st.suckless.org/patches/">Suckless + collection</a>, such as scrolling, transparency, background color + change on focus, solarized dark theme, boxdraw and so forth. If + emacs is already running, I will probably use the integrated + terminal, instead of st.</dd> + <dt>Email</dt> + <dd>I read my emails within emacs throught mu4e, an email client + based on + <a href="https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/">mu</a>. Its message + filter is super powerful, it helps me to find any message really + quickly. The account configurations took me time to get it right, + but the effort was worth.</dd> + <dt>Editor</dt> + <dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a> + for any task that goes further than 1 minute. Some features that + changed my life are org-mode (org-agenda, org-...), magit, dired, + tramp. I found the out-of-the-box experience really inconvinient, + the configuration tooks me really a lot of time, but now is tailored + to any task I need. For the sake of learning, I still configured + emacs personally, I could have gone with an Emacs distribution + instead? Now I am trying Emacs Doom for curiosity. For small changes + I go for vim. I keep my vim as simple and unpolished as possible, + so I can have a similar experience when I occasionally </dd> + <dt>Writings</dt> + <dd>LaTeX, Libre Office with others</dd> + <dt>Browser</dt> + <dd>IceCat or Firefox based. I like surf but is so slow</dd> + <dt>Passwords</dt> + <dd>The standard Unix pass</dd> + <dt>RSS reader</dt> + <dd>emacs ...</dd> + <dt>PDF reader</dt> + <dd>zathura, which benefits?</dd> + <dt>Screen eye protection</dt> + <dd>redshift</dd> +</dl> + +<h2 id="hardware">Hardware</h2> +<p>TP T60, libreboot, open WiFi card.</p> |