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16 <h2 id="subtitle">How I do my computing</h2>
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20 (Inspired by computing pages of
21 <a href="https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html">rms</a>
22 and
23 <a href="https://blog.vimuser.org/leah-computing.html">Leah Rowe</a>)
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27 <h3>Computers</h3>
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30 My main computer is a
31 soon-to-be-<a href="https://libreboot.org">librebooted</a>
32 ThinkPad X200. This is the machine I use the most in or out
33 the house. I also own and occasionally use a Dell XPS 15
34 more as a “Desktop”, and a ThinkPad X220T tablet I use when
35 reading (and annotating) research papers.
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39 I also have the privilege of having access to a fleet of
40 beefy servers through our school’s
41 <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">Computer Science Club</a>,
42 which I use for some heavier computations every now and
43 again.
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46 <h4>GNU/Linux distros</h4>
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48 I’ve used a large number of GNU/Linux distributions
49 throughout the years, but as of late, my favourite distros
50 are
51 <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">Guix&nbsp;System</a>,
52 <a href="https://trisquel.info">Trisquel</a>, and
53 <a href="https://www.debian.org">Debian</a> (with no
54 <code>contrib</code> or <code>nonfree</code>). I’m also
55 hoping to find some free time to help with the
56 <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/r/gnewsense-dev/2019-08/msg00001.html">rebooting</a>
57 of <a href="http://www.gnewsense.org">gNewSense</a>.
58 I mostly use the
59 <a href="https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">Linux-libre</a>
60 kernel. Guix&nbsp;System comes with Linux-libre by default,
61 and on Debian-based distros I install it from jxself’s
62 <a href="https://jxself.org/linux-libre/">APT repository</a>.
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65 <h4>Actual computing</h4>
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67 I spend most of my time inside
68 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.
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72 <h3>Cell phone</h3>
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75 I have an old Nexus 5 I reluctantly use from time to time.
76 It runs LineageOS+microG without GApps. Sadly it still
77 requires some blobs for functioning. I can’t wait for lxo’s
78 <a href="https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/0G">0G</a>
79 to become a reality fast enough :)
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