My partner and I are on the last few days of our Summer Solstice holiday. We hiked up a local mountain with a friend yesterday and today we're recovering on the sofa from a week of hiking, hill walking, and slightly-too-much food.
I'm alternating between reading some sci-fi on my e-reader (currently reading Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks), writing some psuedo-code for a single-user headless ActivityPub server I'm thinking of implementing for fun, and brewing tea. I might watch a movie later, if I get the urge.
Earlier, as part of a bonus Solstice gift, I set up my partner's laptop with an N64 emulator, a USB N64-like controller, and some old games she enjoyed as a child so she's on the other side of the sofa full of nostalgia and smiling, engrossed in her games.
Our cat is curled up on my feet and stretched out onto my partner's lap; her favourite cuddle position.
I've just been getting up and running with a minimal distro lately and also discovered user-dirs.dirs, so I'm no longer bound by the standard auto-generated Home folders.
Looking to share and learn how other comrades organise their home directories. Any tips appreciated, and also just seeing how other people like to use and organise ~/ :-)
Here's how I've organised ~/ on my new install so far:
```
- audio/
- audiobooks/
- music/
- podcasts/
- books/
- documents/
- dotfiles/
- downloads/
- images/
- photos/
- screenshots/
- wallpaper/
- opt/
- planner/
- projects/
- scripts/
- videos/
- workspace/
```
… plus all the hidden cruft that's placed in home by various programs. I do my best to enforce the XDG_CONFIG_HOME standard but I'm still in the process of moving stuff into
.config/.
Most of these are self-explanatory. opt/ is for software I build from source or otherwise not available in my package manager. planner/ is a git repo full of plain text and markdown files used to manage productivity and take notes. projects/ is my personal git repos containing stuff like my blog, creative writing etc. scripts/ is part of my $PATH and contains executable helper scripts such as setting a random wallpaper, fetching mail, etc. It's also a git repo. workspace/ is actually the XDG_DESKTOP_DIR but renamed. My window manager doesn't put files/folders on the actual desktop so I use this space for repos I contribute to for my job as well as transient tasks which require a folder structure for getting something done but which will likely be removed later. Basically stuff that's not an actual personal "project" and I'm working on at the moment.
Things I'm thinking about:
- alternative names for
downloads/. There are three folders which startdomeaning tab-complete only works on the third letter. Not ideal. I've seen some people useincoming/but I keep flip-flopping on whether I like this or not. - Possibly renaming
dotfiles/to.dotfiles/but then, I use it a fair amount at the moment. - adding an
articlesfolder for academic articles and HTML blog posts I want to keep locally.
Most of what I want to do on the web is read text, and while I love Firefox it's a bit of a resource hog for quick browsing. I've therefore been using links2 for a while. There is also Lynx, and Elinks and probably many more I'm not aware of.
links2 was somewhat of an arbitrary choice for me, so I was wondering if any comrades used terminal-based browsers and which ones they preferred? I'd value the feature of highlighting and copying text, but maybe that's a concern for the terminal emulator itself? links2 is fine so far but wondering if anyone was particularly passionate about their browser choice on the terminal.
(Note: I'm aware of Kristall, for Gemini/HTTP/Gopher but I'm specifically interested in a terminal-based web browser)