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 * Text-Based Simplicity
 
-I've detailed my views on web-based minimalism and related topics in
-other posts throughout the years; e.g., JavaScript/CSS bloat slowing
-down websites that are essentially a text document. However, I have
-never really expanded beyond talking about the web and describing how I
-focus on minimizing distractions in other digital environments.
-
-This post is going to set the baseline for how I /try/ to live my
-digital life. It does not necessarily get into my physical life, which
-is often harder to control and contain all the noise in our modern
-world.
-
-While there are new things to do every day in our digital world, I find
-that keeping a core set of values and interests can ground you and keep
-you mindful of /why/ you are participating in the digital world. For
-example, if - at your core - you have no interest in what strangers
-think about random topics, it would be unwise to start participating in
-social media. However, I am someone who has been dragged in by effective
-advertising to participate in communities that I realize I do not care
-for.
-
-I won't dive much further into explaining the philosophy of all this,
-but I will link a few helpful articles that may pique your interest if
-you're in search of more meaningful experiences:
+I've detailed my views on web-based minimalism and related topics in other posts
+throughout the years; e.g., JavaScript/CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) bloat
+slowing down websites that are essentially a text document. However, I have
+never really expanded beyond talking about the web and describing how I focus on
+minimizing distractions in other digital environments.
+
+This post is going to set the baseline for how I /try/ to live my digital life.
+It does not necessarily get into my physical life, which is often harder to
+control and contain all the noise in our modern world.
+
+While there are new things to do every day in our digital world, I find that
+keeping a core set of values and interests can ground you and keep you mindful
+of /why/ you are participating in the digital world. For example, if - at your
+core - you have no interest in what strangers think about random topics, it
+would be unwise to start participating in social media. However, I am someone
+who has been dragged in by effective advertising to participate in communities
+that I realize I do not care for.
+
+I won't dive much further into explaining the philosophy of all this, but I will
+link a few helpful articles that may pique your interest if you're in search of
+more meaningful experiences:
 
 - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness][Mindfulness]]
 - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism][Minimalism]]
@@ -35,125 +33,111 @@ you're in search of more meaningful experiences:
 
 * Living Life in the Terminal
 
-My personal approach to reducing digital distractions and increasing my
-focus on the task at hand is to use a terminal for as much as I possibly
-can.
+My personal approach to reducing digital distractions and increasing my focus on
+the task at hand is to use a terminal for as much as I possibly can.
 
-Most days, this means that I have a few tabs open constantly in my
-terminal:
+Most days, this means that I have a few tabs open constantly in my terminal:
 
 1. A web browser
 2. A chat client
 3. An email client
-4. An RSS feed reader
+4. An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed reader
 5. A local shell for navigating my computer's files
 6. A remote shell for managing servers and other machines
 
-Beyond this, I rarely open other tabs or GUI applications, unless
-absolutely necessary. If you look, you may be surprised what can be
-accomplished in the terminal.
+Beyond this, I rarely open other tabs or graphical applications, unless
+absolutely necessary. If you look, you may be surprised what can be accomplished
+in the terminal.
 
-For example, I have moved my music and entertainment downloads to the
-terminal, along with my device VPN connections. I am exploring options
-for moving my RSS subscriptions to something like
-[[https://newsboat.org/][Newsboat]], so that I can read my daily
-articles without all the fuss.
+For example, I have moved my music and entertainment downloads to the terminal,
+along with my device virtual private network (VPN) connections. I am exploring
+options for moving my RSS subscriptions to something like [[https://newsboat.org/][Newsboat]], so that I
+can read my daily articles without all the fuss.
 
-Now that we have some examples out of the way, let's dive into the
-specifics.
+Now that we have some examples out of the way, let's dive into the specifics.
 
 ** Browsing the Web
 
-I'm going to start off with a hard topic for those who prefer to live in
-the terminal: web browsing. This task is made hard mostly by websites
-and web apps that require JavaScript to run. The other difficult part is
-that if you're using a text-based browser, that means images won't load
-(hopefully that's obvious).
+I'm going to start off with a hard topic for those who prefer to live in the
+terminal: web browsing. This task is made hard mostly by websites and web apps
+that require JavaScript to run. The other difficult part is that if you're using
+a text-based browser, that means images won't load (hopefully that's obvious).
 
-I am using [[https://lynx.invisible-island.net][Lynx]], a text-based
-browser that runs quickly and easily in the terminal. Lynx allows me to
-browser most websites by simply typing =g= and then typing in the URL I
-want.
+I am using [[https://lynx.invisible-island.net][Lynx]], a text-based browser that runs quickly and easily in the
+terminal. Lynx allows me to browser most websites by simply typing =g= and then
+typing in the URL I want.
 
-If you need a search engine while in Lynx, I recommend
-[[https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/][DuckDuckGo (Lite)]], which allows
-you to search the web using their text-only interface.
+If you need a search engine while in Lynx, I recommend [[https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/][DuckDuckGo (Lite)]], which
+allows you to search the web using their text-only interface.
 
-Eventually, you will run into websites that don't work (or are just too
-ugly and messy) in a text-only mode, and you'll be forced to switch over
-to a GUI browser to look at that site. Personally, I don't mind this as
-it doesn't happen as often as I thought it would.
+Eventually, you will run into websites that don't work (or are just too ugly and
+messy) in a text-only mode, and you'll be forced to switch over to a GUI browser
+to look at that site. Personally, I don't mind this as it doesn't happen as
+often as I thought it would.
 
-The only time I need to do this is when I want to browse an
-image/video-focused webpage or if I need to log in to a site, and it
-doesn't support a text-only login page. For example, I am able to easily
-log in to [[https://sr.ht][Sourcehut]] in lynx.
+The only time I need to do this is when I want to browse an image/video-focused
+webpage or if I need to log in to a site, and it doesn't support a text-only
+login page. For example, I am able to easily log in to [[https://sr.ht][Sourcehut]] in lynx.
 
 ** Chatting with Friends
 
-After web browsing activities, my main form of terminal communication is
-Matrix. I use the [[https://docs.mau.fi/gomuks/][gomuks]] client
-currently.
+After web browsing activities, my main form of terminal communication is Matrix.
+I use the [[https://docs.mau.fi/gomuks/][gomuks]] client currently.
 
-This was incredibly easy to install on macOS (but I will need to see if
-it'll be just as easy on Linux when my new laptop arrives):
+This was incredibly easy to install on macOS (but I will need to see if it'll be
+just as easy on Linux when my new laptop arrives):
 
 #+begin_src sh
 brew install gomuks
 #+end_src
 
-Once you launch gomuks, it will sync and require your username and
-password to login. After doing so, the only problem I ran into was
-verifying my gomuks client so that I could participate in rooms with
-E2EE.
+Once you launch gomuks, it will sync and require your username and password to
+login. After doing so, the only problem I ran into was verifying my gomuks
+client so that I could participate in rooms with E2EE (end-to-end encryption).
 
-Finally, I was able to verify the session by opening the Element desktop
-app (I assume you can do this in the browser and mobile app too, but I'm
-not sure) and manually verifying myself with this process:
+Finally, I was able to verify the session by opening the Element desktop app (I
+assume you can do this in the browser and mobile app too, but I'm not sure) and
+manually verifying myself with this process:
 
 1. Open the Element desktop app
 2. Open a room I was a member of
 3. Open the =Room Info= pane
 4. Open the =People= menu and search for myself
 5. Click on my profile name
-6. Click on the session link under the =Security= section and follow the
-   prompts to manually verify the session
+6. Click on the session link under the =Security= section and follow the prompts
+   to manually verify the session
 
-Overall, I like gomuks and am able to enjoy all the features I was using
-in Element. The only hiccup I have occurred is manually downloading
-images to view them, which can be annoying.
+Overall, I like gomuks and am able to enjoy all the features I was using in
+Element. The only hiccup I have occurred is manually downloading images to view
+them, which can be annoying.
 
 ** Email
 
-Moving email to the terminal has been the hardest of the tasks for me.
-Unlike web browsing, where I can simply decide to not look at a website
-that does not work in the terminal, I cannot simply ignore emails sent
-to me.
+Moving email to the terminal has been the hardest of the tasks for me. Unlike
+web browsing, where I can simply decide to not look at a website that does not
+work in the terminal, I cannot simply ignore emails sent to me.
 
-Personally, I am experimenting with [[https://neomutt.org/][neomutt]] as
-a potential email client.
+Personally, I am experimenting with [[https://neomutt.org/][neomutt]] as a potential email client.
 
-However, this requires a *TON* of configuration and tweaking to get
-right. Even when I was able to set up neomutt, configure my email
-account, and customize a few personal preferences, a lot of emails still
-do not display correctly (mostly due to HTML and images).
+However, this requires a *TON* of configuration and tweaking to get right. Even
+when I was able to set up neomutt, configure my email account, and customize a
+few personal preferences, a lot of emails still do not display correctly (mostly
+due to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and images).
 
-I won't get into the details of configuring =neomutt=; I mostly followed
-this blog post:
-[[https://gideonwolfe.com/posts/workflow/neomutt/intro/][Email in the
-Terminal: Configuring Neomutt]].
+I won't get into the details of configuring =neomutt=; I mostly followed this
+blog post: [[https://gideonwolfe.com/posts/workflow/neomutt/intro/][Email in the Terminal: Configuring Neomutt]].
 
-Finally, I have yet to figure out how to connect my GPG keys to
-=neomutt=, but that's a problem for another day.
+Finally, I have yet to figure out how to connect my PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
+keys to =neomutt=, but that's a problem for another day.
 
 ** RSS Feed Reader
 
-I have just started using [[https://newsboat.org/][Newsboat]] to read
-articles in my terminal and have found quick success with it.
+I have just started using [[https://newsboat.org/][Newsboat]] to read articles in my terminal and have
+found quick success with it.
 
-The configuration was super easy for this app; I simply installed the
-app, created a file for URLs, and imported my OPML subscriptions that I
-had exported out of my old feed reader:
+The configuration was super easy for this app; I simply installed the app,
+created a file for URLs, and imported my OPML (Outline Processor Markup
+Language) subscriptions that I had exported out of my old feed reader:
 
 #+begin_src sh
 brew install newsboat
@@ -169,13 +153,12 @@ newsboat -i=my_subscriptions.opml
 
 ** Writing & Programming
 
-Unfortunately, the weak link in my terminal-based environment right now
-is my grasp of the possibilities of editing files within a shell.
+Unfortunately, the weak link in my terminal-based environment right now is my
+grasp of the possibilities of editing files within a shell.
 
-I am used to the easy extensions found in VSCodium and Kate, so I am
-slowly learning how to mold the default editing tools to my needs.
-Currently, this means I am using =nano= with the following
-configuration:
+I am used to the easy extensions found in VSCodium and Kate, so I am slowly
+learning how to mold the default editing tools to my needs. Currently, this
+means I am using =nano= with the following configuration:
 
 #+begin_src config
 set breaklonglines
@@ -187,15 +170,14 @@ set fill 80
 #+end_src
 
 This configuration allows nano to automatically hard-wrap lines at 80
-characters, autoindent the wrapped lines (if the previous line was
-indented), use 2 spaces per tab, and display line numbers within each
-file I open.
-
-I am currently looking to see if =vim= or =emacs= would be more useful
-for my current needs, but I'm not in any rush, so I don't expect to find
-an answer anytime soon.
-
-With my current life demands, I am not programming at the moment and
-have not explored the best terminal set-up for programming. However, I
-have seen many peers find success configuring =vim= and =emacs=, so
-that's where I will start when I pick my projects back up.
+characters, autoindent the wrapped lines (if the previous line was indented),
+use 2 spaces per tab, and display line numbers within each file I open.
+
+I am currently looking to see if =vim= or =emacs= would be more useful for my
+current needs, but I'm not in any rush, so I don't expect to find an answer
+anytime soon.
+
+With my current life demands, I am not programming at the moment and have not
+explored the best terminal set-up for programming. However, I have seen many
+peers find success configuring =vim= and =emacs=, so that's where I will start
+when I pick my projects back up.