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salamander014today at 8:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've wanted to do this for a while. Thanks for detailing your setup! I hope one day I find the time to try it.

I've also always yearned for more usability from just the command line.

There's no tui spotify client, is there? Maybe I should break out my mp3 collection again... I'm trying to think of what else I'd really need to not need a GUI machine for my day to day. Maybe email?

Lynx and other tui browsers are not usable on today's web. Maybe there's a subculture to find somewhere that also appreciates reader-mode / lack of javascript?

If so anyone please lead me to the promise land!


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qsorttoday at 8:21 PM

It's hard to find the kind of person who likes both, but the ultimate CLI enabler is AI. Ironically, since the rise of actually useful agents I've been using less web and GUI stuff and more CLI. git, ssh, vim, tmux, psql, sqlite3, codex, claude. What more can I ask for? The "there's a unix pipeline for that" mentality that was technically true but ultimately impractical 5 years ago now works phenomenally well. I wouldn't go as far as removing the gui entirely from my machine, but I'm literally down to the modern web browser as the final holdout.

mamcxtoday at 8:25 PM

Like https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui ?

There is a tons of "modernized" TUI since Rust/Go, and even better terminal and shells.