Playing around with PeppermintOS on a "new " old laptop, and having fun. Its making me realize that tiny things can really work to impress. (Especially when you’re waiting on a ram upgrade, haha!)

Could be terminal based or GUI, I’m just curious—what tiny apps do you use that you think are neat? Things that don’t take up much storage or memory.

  • tochee@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    tealdeer takes up 3.7MB on my system. It’s a rust implementation of tldr - simplified man pages with practical examples. If I want to do some common thing with a program I don’t use very often, chances are I can type (e.g.) tldr kill and it’ll tell me what I need to know.

  • fuser@quex.ccEnglish
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    1 year ago

    gnumeric runs great on any old linux machine - it isn’t as sophisticated as Libreoffice Calc but for basic spreadsheeting, it’s very fast and lightweight.

    gnucash is an alternative to quickbooks for accounting - it’s been around so long that it will run on anything and it does the job without sharing your data or bombarding you with ads.

    you can always run nmap in the terminal and have some fun with that.

  • StrayCatFrump@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    jq for parsing/formatting/manipulating JSON, and its yq wrapper for YAML. Holy shit you can do powerful queries with them.

  • Hellfire103English
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    1 year ago

    Probably BadWolf. It’s a WebKit-based browser that’s really simple and lightweight. It supports ad-blocking through wyebadblock, although any other settings (e.g. homepage, JavaScript, etc.) need to be specified before compiling from source.

    A slightly more advanced browser is Falkon, which is based on QtWebEngine. It’s more feature-rich, but some websites seem to confuse the Blink-based QtWebEngine with an old version of Internet Explorer (for some reason).

    The lightest browser I could use would probably be w3m. It’s a console-based browser, but it supports displaying images through the framebuffer.

    I generally prefer LibreWolf (a Firefox fork), but I use BadWolf on my 2009 Acer Aspire, which has about 3GB of RAM; and I use w3m on my MacBook, which is now a text-only system.

  • zsotykai@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My two favorites are recently:

    • nnn for managing files
    • miller for all my CSV needs
    • rg for searching in files
    • navi for my cheatsheet needs
    • nb for my jotting needs
    • ledger because I love to know about my money