Mx. Nichole

Anybody else watch the like documentary on (I want to say) forgotten arms about this and how they basically rented a space just to make it look like they where a bigger operation for when the general or whoever came in?

Honestly I use an app called zellage and I like being able to put my music player(cmus) and artwork ripper(cmus-art), and usually a visualizer (wtf can’t I remember it’s name).

There’s no particular advantage so much as my personal preference for staying on keyboard and off mouse. I have everything bound to key chords that I’ve more or less memorized so it’s a quick ctrl+t n for new tab ctrl+p v move pane down , etc etc and I can do all of it more or less by feeling.

It’s largely an aesthetic preference, but It’s also that I have a slow system. So I can keep ram use down. 2nd gen core i3 problems (shrugs)

I use it occasionally but mostly I use terminal players like cmus or musikcube (aliased to mcu, because… geek)

Mostly I live in my shell with zellij and do basically everything on cli. Even web browsing (allbeit non graphical) can be done with stuff like lynx or w3m. And for fanfiction that’s fine.

I honestly endorse the cult of thinkpads, get an old t-series or some other cheap model. They have excellent driver compatability and access to tinker with the hardware. If you want to build it out to be a behemoth with an i7-i9 with like 16gb and a small boot drive but a massive spinning rust drive that’s doable. But it’s also a good light machine, say you keep it on 8gb and a 256 or whatever stock is… that’s still a good machine.

I’m currently running an ancient windows 7 era Dell machine and it works great its just showing it’s age in physical condition and thermals. Unfortunately it is a tank of laptop when it comes to lugging it around (especially compared to a modern thin& light). but even that still has enough horsepower as a 2ng Gen core i3 with 8gb and a 1tb spinning rust drive, for some light stuff like ,music playing and writing.

You might think about tossing ubuntu with lxqt or sway on the MacBook. Just be sure you have a way to get internet set up most the wifi cards in MacBook don’t work out of the box.