No need to feel super old!

/cries in half century

Reminds me of that explanation for why the years seem to move much faster when you’re older. When you’re 10, five years is half your life. When you’re 50, it’s only 10%.

I still use ratpoison, dreading the day it stops working for whatever reason (wayland being a likely one). Haven't tried it, but Cagebreak (https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak) seems like a possible successor.

Man I miss those days. I felt so cool sitting in coffee shops with a 10 year old ThinkPad running ratpoison on Gentoo.

A nice side benefit is that ratpoison is its own screen lock (for 99% of people).

Ratpoison is surprisingly good on small laptops, where everything is usually maximized anyway.