# Use TTY

I realized that TTY alone is almost sufficient. So I live mostly o
n TTY now to use my computer. I'm also writing this post on TTY.


## Web and Gopher

I use sfeed for RSS. I can read posts, watch videos with yt-dlp, d
ownload files with curl. I also use RSS bridge.

You can download websites with curl, wget or httrack. You can chec
k the weather with `curl https://wttr.in/$place`.

If I need a browser, I use Links for web and sacc for Gopher. Set
up file associations like `ffplay %` for image/jpg or video/mp4. T
hen voila! you can view multimedias on a webpage.

For Neocities, I use my Neocities script 'n'. I've already posted
it on this site. Check it. If you can't use plan9 rc shell, I thin
k the Neocities client in Go is the second best.


## Password manager

You can use any CLI password manager. But I think that just using
passphrases and writing them down on paper is far better.


## Email

You can use mutt. It is the best email client.


## Messenger

I don't use any messenger. If you need one, you can just use IRC.
There are tons of cli IRC clients.


## Torrent

I hate torrenting. If I NEED, I use btpd. Any cli torrent client w
ould work. I prefer btpd since it is simple.


## PDF

The best way is just printing PDF files like a boomer.
If you have to view, use pdftohtml or pdftotext.


## Media

I use mpv for audios, imv for images, ffplay for videos. You can a
lso use mpv with vo=sdl. It still works. But since I find that ffp
lay with CPU flags works better for videos, I use ffplay anyway.

If you have a music player (not a phone), just use it instead.


## Mouse

GPM for Linux. wsmoused for OpenBSD.

I don't know about GPM, but I can't click with wsmoused. I can onl
y drag&paste a text and 'right click' a link. So I don't use it.


## Multitasking

I just use another TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+F3, ...). tmux and
GNU screen are other options.


## Menu

I use fzy. You can use slmenu if you want dmenu style.


## Misc

It is obvious that you can use Calcurse for a calendar or bc for a
calculator. So I omited all those obvious things. By the way, you
should just use a real calendar and a calculator though.


## What I can't

I can't use unicode. [Kaa][0] told me that it is a bitmap font iss
ue. However, I can view the unicode title of a video with mpv.

I can't use JS/CSS on a text browser. But I already seldomly use t
hem. I can use cookies though.

I can't use clipboard. But it seems that you can mimic it with tmu
x. Also I can't copy a link on a text browser. I can download the
page and use URLview on another TTY though.

As I wrote on 'Mouse', I can't click.


[0]: https://kaa.neocities.org