i’ve recently thought about maybe going no gui on my laptop, basically just using tui apps. of course this wouldn’t work for all things, like visiting bank websites and such - but you get the point.

this is because i kinda wanna see how much of my laptop usage can be from the terminal instead of using gui apps all the time. maybe a future post for this about me testing it for a month? :eyes:

thinking about this brought me back to discovering the gemini protcol back in 2024, which i finally took the time to test out the past week. for those who don’t know, the gemini protocol is “a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents”.¹

it feels like a little miniture web, like the small web - just even smaller! i love how browsing feels; simple, clean, and smaller. you decide whether you want to view an image or not. pop up ads? no way. pop up shorts?! hell no. (yes it’s an actual thing on some websites)

it’s so refreshing.

there’s some cool projects on there already. a well known project, The Konpeito Tapes (mirror), was a quarterly lo-fi hip hip & chill bootleg mixtapes that was distributed exlusively through the Gemini protocol. how cool is that?! it even got games! i tried out the geography puzzle game while testing it the first time and this alone could actually make me make the move alone lol.

i might create a gemini capsule of my website sometime in the future, as it seems to be something i actually want to keep using.

here’s a quickstart guide if you wanna check it out yourself!

Footnotes

1. Project Geminis descripiton of what Gemini is ↩