!How I use SDF in daily life --- agk's diary 07 June 2022 @ 03:35 UTC --- written on GPD Win 1 (2017) via PuTTY at 24-hour truck stop just off the highway with $4.80/gal gas and a cup of black coffee --- I called into SDF's OpenVoIP tonight for the first time in months. I was excited by the conversation about teaching new users what---beyond chat---they can do on our shared unix computer. On the call I met SDF users in People's Republic of China! smj suggested I write how I use SDF. I'm a univer- sity student six months from completing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and mom of a toddler. We live in a village near the poorest administrative region of my country. I use second-hand computer/ tablet/phones. I don't have or want a windows, apple, or google account. My computer's a GPD Win 1, a five-year-old Windows 10 clamshell laptop the size of a Nintendo DS or small, thick smartphone. Terminal computing uses the small screen and 1.6 GHz Atom processor effic- iently. PuTTY, in full-screen, has no space-wasting window decorations. I use SDF how classmates use google suite. They write papers in docs. I use nano editor in a tmux session. They check gmail. I hit ^b c to open a new window in tmux and check email with mutt. They look up stuff with chrome. I use lynx with duck.com, etymonline, wikiless, or frogfind. They calculate with google sheets. I use sc. To switch running programs, I hit ^b and the number at the bottom of the screen of the window I want. If my battery or internet dies, tmux unperturbed loses no unsaved work. I log back in from anything capable of ssh or web browsing (ssh.sdf.org), and type `tmux ls` to list running sessions (this one's named 0). `tmux attach -t 0` connects me back to session 0, which is as I left it. To log off on purpose, type ^b d to detach before hanging up. My spouse can even watch me work---everything I type can display on her screen! SDF's wiki tutorial about tmux taught me you can clone a session to multiple computers if all connect as the same user: `tmux new-session -t existing_session -s new_session` I wasn't joking about using SDF like classmates use google! On a secondhand degoogled android with no sim card, I call people via linphone with SDF voip and a DID. Friends are used to me saying, "I have bad cell service here. I'll call back on my Seattle number." When I had to submit videos of me doing physical assessment of classmates, teaching patients about their disease patho and meds, and presenting my paper on prisoner population health and nursing, I was permitted to upload private unlisted videos to SDF toobnix instead of youtube or yuja media. Best of all, I don't have to be a system adminis- trator. Membership keeps SDF working and up to date, so I can do what I logged on to do---write my essay, check mail, browse www or gopher, calcu- late spreadsheets, telephone friends, or tune into a non-radio. An SDF account is access to a very cool shared unix computer---you can use it for anything a computer does! I'm curious how other people use SDF. :)