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   1 <!--# set var="title" value="How I do my Computing" -->
   2 <!--# set var="pub" value="September 14, 2019" -->
   3 <!--# set var="upd" value="November 30, 2019" -->
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   5 <p>(Inspired by computing pages of
   6 <a href="//stallman.org/stallman-computing.html">rms</a> and
   7 <a href="//blog.vimuser.org/leah-computing.html">Leah Rowe</a>)</p>
   8
   9 <h2>Computers</h2>
  10 <p>My main computer is a
  11 soon-to-be-<a href="https://libreboot.org">librebooted</a>
  12 ThinkPad X200.  This is the machine I use the most in or out the
  13 house.  I also own and occasionally use a Dell XPS 15 more as a
  14 &ldquo;Desktop&rdquo;, and a ThinkPad X220T tablet I use when reading
  15 (and annotating) research papers.</p>
  16
  17 <p>I also have the privilege of having access to a fleet of beefy
  18 servers through our school's
  19 <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a>,
  20 which I use for some heavier computations every now and
  21 again.</p>
  22
  23 <h2>GNU/Linux distros</h2>
  24 <p>I've used a large number of GNU/Linux distributions throughout the
  25 years, but as of late, my favourite distros are
  26 <a href="//trisquel.info">Trisquel</a>,
  27 <a href="//guix.gnu.org">Guix System</a>, and
  28 <a href="//www.debian.org">Debian</a> (with no <code>contrib</code> or
  29 <code>non-free</code>).  I mostly use the
  30 <a href="//www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">GNU Linux-libre</a> kernel.
  31 Guix&nbsp;System comes with GNU Linux-libre out of the box, and on
  32 Debian-based distros I install it from jxself's
  33 <a href="//jxself.org/linux-libre/">APT repository</a>.</p>
  34
  35 <h2>Actual computing</h2>
  36 <p>I spend most of my time in
  37 <a href="//www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.</p>
  38 <p>TODO: elaborate</p>
  39
  40 <h2>Cell phone</h2>
  41 <p>I have an old Nexus 5 I reluctantly use from time to time.  It runs
  42 LineageOS+microG without GApps.  Sadly it still requires some blobs
  43 for functioning.  I can't wait for lxo's
  44 <a href="//www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/0G">0G</a> to become a
  45 reality fast enough.
  46 <span class="smly">:-)</span></p>
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