I am aware that my setup appears baroque with many fiddly manual steps documented only in my shell history. Honestly I regard myself as a kinda not very technical person with a simple setup and (a) reading the above back to myself, it’s a surprise even to myself, a travesty, a fiasco, and yet (b) I feel like it accords with a principle of simplicity on a certain otherwise unnameable axis.

Rings very true to the gulf between how I perceive my computing habits, and how others perceive those same habits. My tools are simple — as simple as possible, but not simpler.