How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?

1. browsh

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   A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

   

2. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

3. web

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   Bugs, enhancements, ideas for our Web presence (by kiwix)

   

4. asciiMol

   3 5 365 2.8 Python

   Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for terminals.

   Eventually I'll explore also the Mosh shell to deal with connection instabilities, but so far a disconnect would not cause any data loss, I just have to reconnect and Tmux will resume everything. Heck, I've even gone as far as visualizing molecules in 3D with ASCII MOL (https://github.com/dewberryants/asciiMol).

5. reddio

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   https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio looks like it might be a decent, maintained alternative.

6. devdocs

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   API Documentation Browser

   

   Mosh for a stable connection, Offline documentation such as msdn, wikipedia (via kiwi etc), zeal for local access to https://devdocs.io/; Self host tabby for ai autocompletion. For many shell programs check what mulinux was using back then, and what are the modern replacements such as elinks instead of links. Mutt for mail, for irc doesn't matter much, use a desktop one but setup a bouncher on a vps, I used to have one on a raspberry pi 1, you can use rss reader for reddit (not sure if still works) and blogs

7. slob

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   Data store for Aard 2

   

8. sixel-tmux

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   sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

   

   sixel-tmux can help you have both: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/

9. Nutrient

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10. zeal

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    Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash

    

    For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/

11. vim-graphical-preview

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    Small plugin for Vim to display graphics with SIXEL characters

    sixel can let you do latex math in vim with a few commands. Other image formats require much more effort!

12. tmux

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    tmux source code

    

    A few days ago I made a suggestion to work around any possible issues but it's up to the main tmux maintainer to decide what to do.

13. xsixel

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    Compiling Xorg to render with Sixels inside a terminal

    Here's a sneak preview of Xsixel running inside Wezterm (which supports sixels) showing xeyes that I opened on another tab of wezterm after the export DISPLAY dance

14. iiab

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    Internet-in-a-Box - Build your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a Raspberry Pi !

    

    Use a tool like Internet-in-a-box and keep a "local" version of tons of very useful stuff like Wikipedia and Maps.

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