I think I'll respond in reverse order ...
@loutfard
Those look like cool projects, and save on bandwidth, and thus (someones) money, and ultimately electricity. One thing I like about Lynx is that it supports the gopher protocol, which is a source for some of the text-only content I find good. More on that below.
@jacob
Please don't feel like you have to change the theme or interface on my account. I don't know if anyone else here is even experimenting with these browsers, and the gain to that group seems like it would be outweighed by the annoyance it could cause to so many more users.
@w7
Ah, the classroom and its management -- what I have done with 14 years of my life. (That *does* sound depressing). The managing becomes on-the-spot muscle memory, and basically has to get to that spot to have mastered it, as thinking is both too slow and too exhausting for real life. But until that space of No-Thought is reached, you are dealing with the drama and frictions of human life.
Also, I have a class that shows this by being the exception: Reading for Stupid Assholes (it's called something else on the schedule, I believe). It is the last hour of the day, with the lowest grade level (and thus lowest attention span at the school), after another hour of "Explo" such as P.E. or music, or a blow off class ran by a Social Studies teacher. That I get anything done in there is seen (correctly) as a real achievement, but it is one of design, not the Management through -insert words from Eastern Philosophy - and it shows to me by me seeing all sorts of things I don't want to ... yes, the drama of "human" relationships, with people whom I share no values with at all.
@avalok
avalok wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 1:42 am
Whenever I have experimented with text-only browsers, I have always struggled because of the large number of websites that now require JavaScript to run (thanks SPAs). That, and the fact that many websites have awful layouts without a tonne of CSS on top. You've given me mind to have another go though.
Did you come across many sites that were unusable? Did you have to defer things until you had a standard browser again?
To the two questions, 1) I don't find the number of sites
that I should be using according to my values completely unusable to be that high. Some sites straight up will inform you that they will not work with the browser, some sites just don't have anything, but with many sites you just have to get used to hitting the space bar 3 to 5 times to get below the crude at top. While this does not spark joy, I just tell myself that there are often times I have to wait for something to load, or get one of those pop ups, and so spending a little effort here probably isn't slower.
2) Certainly some things were deferred. Examples include posting to this forum, investments, YouTube, Spotify (I have a large amount of music locally backed up, and I play it and internet radio in command line using sox).
There is no way this could be someone's internet every day. But if you want to play, here are sites that work well:
http://wiby.me/
Pretends to be a search engine. What it really does is collect lite webpages. I'd just hit the "surprise me" and have an old-school surfing (not FEEDING) experience.
http://www.frogfind.com/
What I use for search when I am just using Lynx. It is a crude-stripping wrapper around duckduckgo
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~antenna/
The https rendering of the main hub for the Gemini protocol. Sometimes they actually communicate about things other than Gemini itself.
https://theconversation.com/us/
Academics writing creative commons articles trying to create discourse among the educated public. What is this, the twentieth century?
The rest are in Gopher protocol (and thankfully they virtually never communicate about the protocol itself).
gopher://hngopher.com/
Hacker News port
gopher://gopherpedia.com
gopherpedia -- Wiki port
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/7/groundhog/us/zipcode
Weather<
gopher://gopher.club/1/phlogs/
SDF... Where I hang out and post and stuff.