chals

16 June 2025

Pine rescue

Weird as it may seem, the only way to save the pine that was torn in two by the wind is forcing a branch in a vertical position so that the sap goes up.

From my experience I can only try it and hope it works. I am pretty sure it will. Cross fingers.

21 May 2025

I have several things to say beforehand to make my point clear. First is that even though the title of this post is lynx my favourite text browser still is elinks. I think that the configuration options are easier to handle, and I also prefer the layout of some websites as displayed by elinks (I've published several screenshots over time).

Second, if you visit my home page, you'll read:

chals@chalsattack:~$ elinks -dump chalsattack.com

But to tell you the truth I use lynx in my scripts.

And one last thing, Make no mistake, graphical web browsers are fantastic, they allow you to access infinite multimedia content, and I do really love them.

So, if I do really love graphical web browsers and my favourite text browser is elinks. Why then am I writing a post named lynx?

Well, sometimes the answer to complex questions is quite simple. I am using lynx these days to navigate to certain https:// sites that are not easily reachable with elinks.

Another easy answer to that question is that I use https://chalsattack.com/ as my homepage in all my browsers, but always using the same homepage can be a bit boring so I wrote some aliases to start lynx with different homepages depending on my needs. This is quite simple, I know, but it is also very handy sometimes:

# lynx aliases & functions

alias lx='lynx https://chalsattack.com/'
alias lxd='lynx https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/'
alias lxg='lynx https://www.google.com/'
alias lxf='lynx https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/main.html'
...

and several more.

If I simply type lynx I get the browser's default page which leads to https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

To finish with by now, let me add that lynx is still actively maintained and this adds an extra level of trust in the browser.

18 February 2025

Twenty years exclusively using GNU/linux

WOW, let me hear that again: WOW!!!

In short. I started dual-booting in 2004 and switched to linux full time in 2005. This means that I have been using GNU/linux for two decades!!!

The word "exclusively" is used for emphasis, since I have also been playing and using other operating systems. Mainly BSD and occasionally Solaris (or some sort of derivative).

But somehow I always come back to debian, do not ask me why. Call it what you want, maybe because I am too used to it or who knows. Maybe it is just love at first sight (which is very likely)

Keep on rockin'