The WEiRDEST Way to Use a Mac

Stuff I Used in the Terminal:

- https://brew.sh
   - Lets you install programs from the terminal.
- https://ghostty.org
   - A *better* terminal emulator with support for True Colour, font ligatures, separate fonts for regular, italic, and symbols.
- https://yazi-rs.github.io
   - A file manager.
- https://helix-editor.com
   - A text editor similar to https://neovim.io but with no plug-ins, so it limits how much time you waste ricing your editor, or so you think.
- To quit: `ESC, :, q!`, memorize this or you will be memed!

- https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
- A resource monitor.
- https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
- A system information tool.
- https://github.com/ravachol/kew
- A music player.
- https://newsboat.org
- An RSS/Atom feed reader.
- https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker
- Tracks stock and derivative prices in real time.
- https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
- Plain text weather info.

- https://github.com/sigoden/aichat
- An all-in-one LLM tool with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.
- https://www.brow.sh
- A "graphical" ;) web browser in your terminal.
- https://hpjansson.org/chafa
- Converts images, including animated GIFs, into ANSI/Unicode character art for the terminal.
- See also https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca.
- https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
- Hacker News in your terminal.
- https://mpv.io
- A full fledged media player.
- To play videos in the terminal, use the command `mpv --really-quiet --vo=tct --vo-tct-buffering=frame FILE or URL`
- E.g., `mpv --really-quiet --vo=tct --vo-tct-buffering=frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vFErGxD2QY`


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