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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 |