The high blood pressure incident

   Two weeks ago, on October 15th, in a routine medical check the doctor
    found out that my blood pressure was so high that I could have
    suffered significant damage.
     
    I like to call it "the incident" for some reason, don't know why.
     
    From that day on, my life has changed significantly. Now I eat without
    any added salt, I avoid coffee, alcohol and any other thing that can
    make my blood pressure rise.
     
    What is more, since I need to lead a healthy life, I do not eat sugar.
    The only sugar I get comes from fruit. Can't get any healthier.
    Thus, I think I started a chain reaction in the sense that
    avoiding salt and sugar I do not eat ultra-processed food anymore.
     
    And, if you ask me, I will tell you that even though my life is a bit
    boring I really feel good (as in healthy) and also happy that it was
    all something I can write about without having suffered any damage or
    attack.
     
    As I am writing this, I have a blood pressure monitor attached to my
    left arm and it is telling me that the results are back to normal.
     
    Apart from regularly checking my blood pressure at home I have to go
    from time to time to the doctor's so that she can see that my health
    is on the right track. No problem, everything is ok now.
     
    Stay healthy!

Upgrading to trixie

Electric scooter

So so much fun!

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.

lynx

 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.

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'

Sowing with love