| | 1 | title: How I do my Computing |
| | 2 | date: 2019-09-14 00:35 |
| | 3 | slug: bandali-computing |
| | 4 | tags: computing |
| | 5 | updated: 2019-11-30 21:16 |
| | 6 | copyright: 2019 |
| | 7 | --- |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | (Inspired by computing pages of [rms][stallman-computing] |
| | 10 | and [Leah Rowe][leah-computing]) |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | ## Computers |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | My main computer is a soon-to-be-[librebooted](https://libreboot.org) |
| | 15 | ThinkPad X200. This is the machine I use the most in or out the |
| | 16 | house. I also own and occasionally use a Dell XPS 15 more as a |
| | 17 | “Desktop”, and a ThinkPad X220T tablet I use when reading (and |
| | 18 | annotating) research papers. |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | I also have the privilege of having access to a fleet of beefy servers |
| | 21 | through our school’s [Computer Science Club][csc], which I use for |
| | 22 | some heavier computations every now and again. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | ## GNU/Linux distros |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | I’ve used a large number of GNU/Linux distributions throughout the |
| | 27 | years, but as of late, my favourite distros are [Guix System][guix], |
| | 28 | [Trisquel][trisquel], and [Debian][debian] (with no `contrib` or |
| | 29 | `non-free`). I mostly use the [GNU Linux-libre][linux-libre] kernel. |
| | 30 | Guix System comes with GNU Linux-libre out of the box, and on |
| | 31 | Debian-based distros I install it from jxself’s |
| | 32 | [APT repository][jxself-apt]. |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | ## Actual computing |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | I spend most of my time in [GNU Emacs][gnu-emacs]. |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | TODO: elaborate |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | ## Cell phone |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | I have an old Nexus 5 I reluctantly use from time to time. It runs |
| | 43 | LineageOS+microG without GApps. Sadly it still requires some blobs |
| | 44 | for functioning. I can’t wait for lxo’s [0G][0G] to become a reality |
| | 45 | fast enough :) |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | [stallman-computing]: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html |
| | 49 | [leah-computing]: https://blog.vimuser.org/leah-computing.html |
| | 50 | [csc]: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca |
| | 51 | [guix]: https://guix.gnu.org |
| | 52 | [trisquel]: https://trisquel.info |
| | 53 | [debian]: https://www.debian.org |
| | 54 | [linux-libre]: https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ |
| | 55 | [jxself-apt]: https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ |
| | 56 | [gnu-emacs]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ |
| | 57 | [0G]: https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/0G |
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