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+# Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Yuchen Pei.
+
+# Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+# document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
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+
+#+title: How I do my computing
+
+* How I do my computing
+
+The way I do my computing is evolving and in flux, but here it is.
+
+I try to avoid nonfree programs, including nonfree javascript.  I
+interact with many proprietary platforms in a read-only fashion
+without logged in, like watching videos on invidious, reading issues
+in a github repo, or checking out local events on meetup, with [[https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/][LibreJS]]
+on 99% of the time. 
+
+Unfortunately I have not achieved 100% free software use in that
+respect, as sometimes I have to for example log in to github for
+communication purposes like opening an issue or do online banking.  I
+look forward to tech meetup groups resuming in person events, so that
+I can join AFK without having to log in and RSVP.
+
+That said, I currently don't have an active facebook, linkedin or
+google account.  I also don't have Google services on my lineage os.
+Being a relatively late adopter of free software, the journey of
+slowly shaking off these malware was rather fun.  For example, once I
+discovered my firefox was actually infested with nonfree extensions
+and purged them all.
+
+In terms of communication, I use xmpp, frequent IRC, and lurk on
+mailing lists.  These days I read and write emails on gnus, and I sign
+and encrypt emails when needed.  I also use Signal and (regrettably)
+some proprietary communications application which I'm in the process
+of getting rid of.
+
+I like both command line and emacs interface for getting things done,
+and given that most of my screen time is spent in emacs, I find myself
+writing elisp scripts to retrieve information from the web, or process
+data calling command line utilities, so that I can get things into
+Emacs (mainly org mode).  I also use org-protocol somewhat heavily for
+that purpose with custom dispatchers.
+
+For low level or latency sensitive tasks, like rsync scripts for
+backups, cron jobs for retrieving emails and ssh into very remote
+servers I use command line, as it is more reliable than the emacs
+interface in this case.
+
+Though I like minimalistic tools like i3 and zathura, I'm not in the
+suckless camp, and do believe GUI has values.  I use firefox and enjoy
+beautifully designed webpages (with nonfree javascript disabled of
+course), but take measures to improve my privacy.  My websurfing is
+split about 30-70 between EWW and Firefox.  I use EWW when I need to
+closely process the information in the surfing session in Emacs, when
+the webpage does not work with nonfree javascript, or when the
+colorscheme of the webpage is dark (yeah, my eyes can't take dark
+theme).