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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 |