Re: UNIX systems

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Only 3 hours? How old is your laptop? Sounds like you should at least be able to
get 7-8 hours out of a new one, unless you are running enormous amount of VM:s
or scientific calculations.

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Right now I get 1 hour, so 3 is a major upgrade.  My notebook is quite
new.  It's a Lenovo 15IMH05 with 24 GiB of RAM.

Hmm, sounds like something is wrong somewhere. I'd install powertop and/or tlp
and also make sure to disable Intel VMD in case it is enabled in your bios.
With those three, you should be able to double your battery time at least.
For me, the biggest difference was disabling intel VMD in the bios, that made a
huge difference.

True.
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I have 4 virtual desktop. On 1 lives the web browser, 2 alpine email
(terminal based email client), 3 qpdf a pdf reader with session
support and on 4 my neovim with aout 18 buffers saved in a session
file.

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That's very close to my what I do here.  The web on 2.  My 1 is work. :)
On 3 is USENET and 4 is literature---PDF.

You are a wise man!

I run cwm, which is known as not having a virtual desktop thingies, but
it's actually does.  When I press super-1 I go to desktop 1.  I created
4 virtual desktops (which is enough), but I think I could have at least
9 of them.

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Yeah, these things are important---printer, scanner and wifi.  Although

I wonder if it is easy to get p/s/w on cwm without having to pull in all of xfce
under the hood? That would be awesome!

I think wifi is a lot less important than it seems.  I've read this
article yesterday called ``the computer built to last 50 years'' and
offline mode is quite an important part of it.  I agree with that.
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The system would be designed to usually function offline.  It's when you
connect to the Internet that it does its pull and pushes.  With a system
like that, wifi is less important---you connect your system to the
router once a day, say, and, just like pumping gas into a vehicle, you
get everything you need.  Now you can go back to your desk, after
unplugging the cable from your router.
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I like that.

True. But it would not be convenient for me. The wife would be angry with
network cables everywhere. ;)

Clearly, these are people trying to work without distractions and
interruptions.  I am one of them.
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My latest revelation (a few years back) was alpine email, it probably
doubled my email productivity compared with thunderbird, and is a "all
in one" solution that comes with a lot of help included. Still
flexible and extensible though, but probably not as much as mutt or
neomutt, but it strikes a beautiful balance for me. =)

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Now I would really look into alpine, but I'm a Gnus user, so I'm
forbidden from performing heretic research.

Haha... true. Well, if you are already into tui email, I think the gains will be
less. I suspect that alpine is not the most efficient one. But I think it is
perhaps a bit easier to get started with.