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by skydhash 211 days ago
The nice aspect of these text driven tools is in the name. Being text driven means they are nearly universal. There's nothing more versatile than text on a computer. When I think on anything that operate on text, it feels more like having a set of workflow that act on my data, that the computer doing (and someone else) doing obscure incantation.

> I don't want to do SSL setup so I can have my tasks on two computers.

I use to think that way, then I found that I never use two computers at the same time. At most it would be using one to remote on another, or using one to do stuff I can't do on another (like browsing the web when installing an OS). So I just use my laptop as my main computer. I have some files on my home server and mostly use my phone for HN reading and communication. If I really want to sync something, I just share files using sftp/smb/http/....