{"id":34261,"date":"2024-11-11T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34261"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:44:41","slug":"terminal-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34261","title":{"rendered":"Terminal Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last month has felt like a year, and I spent Saturday decompressing.  And Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s a fun way to decompress?  Play with Linux!<\/p>\n<p>First, I wanted a terminal-based music player for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34238\">my Debian CTWM install<\/a>, so I installed MOC.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I wanted a terminal-based email client.<\/p>\n<p>I tried Neomutt first, and after an hour and a half of <i>I had no idea what&#8217;s going on here&#8230;<\/i> I installed Alpine and had that up and running in about half an hour.  Reading email was fine, <i>sending<\/i> email proved a little more challenging; there was a header issue I had to solve.<\/p>\n<p>So, I can open a terminal and check my work email.  Or, I can open a terminal and listen to music.<\/p>\n<p>Or both!  I can do both! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241111_085919-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Debian screenshot with four terminals open titled into quadrants. Clockwise from top left, Alpine email client, pipes script, Neofetch, MOC music player.\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-34260\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last month has felt like a year, and I spent Saturday decompressing. And Sunday. And what&#8217;s a fun way to decompress? Play with Linux! First, I wanted a terminal-based music player for my Debian CTWM install, so I installed MOC. Then, I wanted a terminal-based email client. I tried Neomutt first, and after an<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34261\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Terminal Madness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[5143,5120,5170,5140],"class_list":["post-34261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-ctwm","tag-debian","tag-email","tag-linux","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}