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That's the disadvantage to crafting your own workspace and environment... |
**Kris Nova:** But it's also one of the things that's so attractive about it, right? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yes. |
**Kris Nova:** \[01:00:06.25\] I love Linux and I love being able to configure and make everything special just for me, because... I don't know, there's something that's sort of fun at the end of the day, knowing like "This is my secret command that nobody else runs, and most people will probably hate and disagree with... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's right. That's my favorite part. Having your own Bash aliases, and shell scripts that do the crazy stuff... That just makes me happy. |
**Erik St. Martin:** They're fun to share, too... I remember -- I think it was you, Brian; the first time you saw in my shell prompt where I have it change the host name's color and put the little lock there when it recognizes that I'm SSH-ed somewhere else... Because I would constantly type a command that I thought I ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I still use that, by the way... Because I love it! It's so awesome. And I added -- I don't think you had it before, but I added a little icon that shows an apple if I'm in a Mac and it shows a penguin if I'm on a Linux machine, and it has the lock if it's SSH-ed. So if I don't see the lock pen... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Nice. Yeah, it's just kind of cool, because it basically changes my prompt to basically make it really -- I really know that I'm on a remote system and I pay attention better. So except for the fact that I tend to be be on my Mac, remoted into my workstation, so I've become accustomed to seeing it ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's a good idea. |
**Erik St. Martin:** One of the other things that I have too is a helper to be able to tab complete machines that I've SSH-ed into before, because it drives me nuts. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I have that, too. |
**Erik St. Martin:** It drives me so nuts having to type out whole IPs, or trying to remember what they are, or host names... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** So I changed -- what's the new `dmenu` replacement we're using in Arch now? What is that...? |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** You know what I'm talking about... It's not `dmenu`, it's the replacement - what the heck is it called? |
**Erik St. Martin:** `rofi`. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** `rofi`, thank you. So I have a `rofi` script that if I just hit alt+D in Arch and just type a hostname, it will automatically SSH to the hostname, and I did that with some Bash hackery. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, cool. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I love me some Arch. And by the way, just because I'm running Windows now does not mean I'm not running i3 anymore... Which I think is the best thing ever. There's truly nothing better. I've got Windows in the background, I open up WSL, I start an Xserver, and now I'm running i3. I have all the best... |
**Erik St. Martin:** What window manager do you use, Chris? |
**Kris Nova:** Right now I am running... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** [xfce](https://xfce.org/) |
**Kris Nova:** Yeah, [xface](https://xfce.org/). Do you guys say [xfce](https://xfce.org/)? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I've seen it, but I've never said it, so I don't know... Xfce is what I would say... |
**Kris Nova:** That's what I have now. I rarely actually get on my Arch Linux box; I'm usually just SSH-ed into it. But I ran Gnome for the longest time, and I think that's kind of like what I grew up with... But I'm just running this now because it was sort of the prettiest at the time. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's light, too. There's not a lot of heaviness in Xfce. I'm pretty sure Erik was the one who introduced me to [i3](https://i3wm.org/), and once you go i3, you cannot go back. You really can't. It's the best windowing environment ever. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, yeah... And just being able to quickly "hotkey" full-screen stuff, or... There's like a parent/child relationship, so you can have multiple windows set up, and they're kind of grouped into one container and you can just quickly kind of full-screen those two things at once. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[01:04:06.17\] Yeah, it's awesome. If you like tile-ing in any way, and keep shortcuts -- because once you go with i3, you could just throw your mouse away, because you don't need it. It's brilliant for command line text editor people. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I think the only time I touch the mouse is when I'm in a browser. That's it. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Links for life. Just kidding... \[laughter\] |
**Kris Nova:** Yeah, browsing the internet links. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I'm sure Jessie Frazelle does. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh... If links was the only thing there, no more browser compatibility issues with CSS and the way things load... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Right? No more Web 2.0... \[laughs\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** So how would you run a video? I guess you could VLC it, or something... How would that work? What would YouTube look like in links? How would you watch the video? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I swear I've seen a links plugin that will play videos... I could be wrong, but I swear I've seen one. |
**Kris Nova:** There's a video player that will actually convert video real-time; it will use ncurses and actually do colored ASCII to super impose the video in your terminal. |
**Erik St. Martin:** What?! |
**Kris Nova:** Yeah, I'm trying to find this library right now... It's pretty cool. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I've seen that, but I swear there's a thing that will actually embed in links... And maybe I'm thinking of something else. I don't know. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I have to see the ASCII video conversion. |
**Kris Nova:** Yeah, it's [ascii-video](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ascii-video). It's a JavaScript package, of course. There you go. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Nice. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I'm gonna have to play with this now. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I don't know... That means you have to use npm. Just say no. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, sweet... like I'm actually looking at it now. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That is so cool. Yeah... Okay, that's cool. |
**Kris Nova:** Yeah. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Not gonna lie, it's cool. |
**Kris Nova:** This reminds me of the -- did you guys ever see the Star Wars Telnet server? |
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