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For me the use cases of offpunk (or any cli/tui program) are mainly 2 things:

1. keep my computer environment on a remote VPS. So I have an always-on machine with high-speed internet access. I read books, visit websites and write codes on the same machine. These are mainly text works so a mosh connection is enough. Occasionally when I want to view some images, I use chafa to preview the images. Because the machine is always on, syncing and backup is eaiser to do.

2. But sometimes either you are offline or the VPS is offline. In this situation I will switch to a raspberry pi zero (packed inside a mint tin). The computation resource is limited so do everything in cli/tui will make things faster.



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