From: nospam@example.net
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:
> On 2024-04-14, D wrote:
>
>> Oh banking and shopping are two painful usecases for me. I
>> fear that those two are what will eventually bring google
>> its hegemony in the browsing space, and then I'll be forced
>> to buy a separate laptop for only those two use cases. =(
>> Hmm, or come to think of it, probably a VM in the cloud
>> running only google chrome. But it still would pain me to
>> have to pay for what should ideally be free. Well... such
>> is life. =(
>
> I've said that last part about beer many times.
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>> Actually links/elinks is one of those projects that never
>> fully blossomed. I did hack buffers into links somehow. It
>> was not very beautiful but it did kind of work, so I could
>> import all my tabs from firefox to links and continue
>> from there.
>
> I wish I could remember why I wound up preferring it to lynx.
One thing I find very underrated with terminal tools is that they are
generally very simple to understand. I don't know a lot of C, but with
terminal tools I can still get a feeling for what they do and rewrite some
parts of the tools if I wish. Usually I just search for a string that
appears in the user interface to get me to the general place where what I
want to happen, should happen, then a bit of "copy paste" a bit of
tweaking, compiling and voila... a terminal program that does just what I
want!
I've never managed to do that with a GUI program such as thunderbird och
firefox. I wouldn't even know where to start with those behemoths.
>> But then something got in the way, so it never made it
>> into my fixed routine. Maybe I should restart that?
>
> No idea what to tell you. I imagine it did some comparison
> testing way back, and concluded it was best for me. But
> I don't remember the test details.
Well, in this case, life and my needs will decide for me, eventually.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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