Old Computer Challange 2023, Day 4

  It's been another day where I spent some spare time on my "old
  computer", a Wyse 3030 thin client from roughly ten years ago, running
  the Alpine operating system that you might know from docker containers.
  
  Nothing particularly new was tried this day, although I'm currently
  collecting ideas and alternative softwares
  
- Web browsing etc. is mostly done with lynx. Dilly just chokes on too
  many pages, Firefox takes up all the memory, no webpack browser runs
  on my installation and I haven't had time or motivation enough to
  fix that.
  
- I'm using the "toot" CLI client for Mastodon. It's... okay. As with
  most Unix textual user interfaces, there's no real standard on how to
  present things, and the columns and dialogs are a bit weird, the 
  shortcuts a mix between slightly vi-ish movement and just "mnemonics".
  
- RSS is done via a simple website I was using before (weloverss.com),
  visited in Lynx. I'm also downloading podcast episodes this way and
  listen to them via the command line mpg123 client.
  
  Now, a lot of the "problems" I've got here also stem from the fact
  that I wasn't exactly doing the optimum before embarking on this
  ascetic journey. No GUI mastodon client, just using the elk.zone web
  app. No dedicated RSS application, just this minimalistic web site.
  I just recently played around with some of the commercial google
  reader clones and the results were mixed. On my Mac, I was quite
  content with NetNewsWire, but that's single-platform (not counting
  mobile), and I haven't found an equivalent Linux/X11 equivalent yet.
  
 ONE ROAD NOT TAKEN
  I could just use Emacs. I'm currently not a heavy user, after
  switching operating systems too often, and having to use VSCode and
  IntelliJ for work. So my configuration that I got stored in some git
  repository is old and lackluster.
  
  The fact that I *could* replace a lot of my lean applications with
  Emacs is one of the reasons I'm not doing that right now, as weird
  as that sounds. I could set up a mail reader there. And do RSS with
  that or add a dedicated one. I could browse gopher/gemini with it.
  I could set up a programming environment that rivals the VS Code
  experience (LSP-based).
  
  I don't know about you, dear rader, but I sometimes have troubles
  "chunking" that task. This time it's not even particularly hard,
  as every item I posted above is something that could be done 
  independently. I just know that I feel like having to complete the
  other parts of the puzzle, and that's why I'm postponing all of this
  
  And to be fair, "doing everything within emacs" is more a general 
  project than specifically related to this constrained environment,
  which I'm using more to look for all kinds of small alternatives and
  different processes.
  
  At least that's what I'm telling myself.