Descend into darkness!  
2023-10-25

I've finally found a bitmap font I can get by with.  I've been with `fixed'
for way too long now, which warranted a journey to something new.  And jns
poisoned me with the necessity for 0O differentiation and this one let's
you build your own variation:

  URL: https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/

It's not quite CREAM, but it's cursive-esque enough to send pleasant shivers
down my pants everytime I print 'f'.  This is in my Xresources:

  *font : -uw-ttyp0-*-i-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

Orange on black.

..

At this point my workflow is just 3 windows.  tmux, xterm w/ links, xconsole.
I don't even run graphical links anymore.  I rewrote my url parser for the
terminal links with dmenu.  s/fandom/antifandom, s/twitter/nitter, etc,
etc.  Not that I visit those places a lot, but it's been a project of mine
for the past few months.  A links2 companion `plugin'.  Watch yo*tube
through a terminal browser, read webcomics, borrow books.  That sort of
stuff.

I should finish the links2bible soon, maybe some of the three people who
use it will find the information in it useful.  It's not about elitism,
paranoia or some ethical highgroundery - it's just a response to the bodily
reflex of an acid reflux, when the `RICH' internet presents itself.

And there's nothing like a text browser to remind you of the decaying
purpose of the web - to serve text - as more and more urls return: "sorry,
bud, we need to track ya, can't do it with whatever the fuck you're using
to visit our site :("

..

I've been using deloused firefox for the past two weeks to work on a website
a few `normal' people might visit, and to get a taste of what the standard
appears to be - to understand what the browser powerusers masturbate over.
I don't really get it and at this point, I'm not sure that I want to.

I'm quitting gui.  Not because I have some undiagnosed brain disease (though
chances are I do), but because everything feels as if it was made for
stimulation.  Sexy buttons, cute animations, curvy shadows, and shitty
functionality.  Maybe I'm wrong, but the more `aesthetic' the software,
the shittier it is.

And don't get me started on the corpo-soft - the world where aesthetics
turn into profitability.  Lick my cheek with next-gen graphical design,
and I just might choke on vomit, as I keep scrolling for 17 more hours.

I'd scream in octal, were I to know how. 

I have no real takeaway from all this, except for: I just like bitmap
fonts.