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  26 <h1>How I do my Computing</h1>
  27 <p>Published on September 14, 2019<br/>
  28 Last updated on November 30, 2019</p>
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  31 <p>(Inspired by computing pages of
  32 <a href="//stallman.org/stallman-computing.html">rms</a> and
  33 <a href="//blog.vimuser.org/leah-computing.html">Leah Rowe</a>)</p>
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  35 <h2>Computers</h2>
  36 <p>My main computer is a
  37 soon-to-be-<a href="https://libreboot.org">librebooted</a>
  38 ThinkPad X200.  This is the machine I use the most in or out the
  39 house.  I also own and occasionally use a Dell XPS 15 more as a
  40 &ldquo;Desktop&rdquo;, and a ThinkPad X220T tablet I use when reading
  41 (and annotating) research papers.</p>
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  43 <p>I also have the privilege of having access to a fleet of beefy
  44 servers through our school's
  45 <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a>,
  46 which I use for some heavier computations every now and
  47 again.</p>
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  49 <h2>GNU/Linux distros</h2>
  50 <p>I've used a large number of GNU/Linux distributions throughout the
  51 years, but as of late, my favourite distros are
  52 <a href="//trisquel.info">Trisquel</a>,
  53 <a href="//guix.gnu.org">Guix System</a>, and
  54 <a href="//www.debian.org">Debian</a> (with no <code>contrib</code> or
  55 <code>non-free</code>).  I mostly use the
  56 <a href="//www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">GNU Linux-libre</a> kernel.
  57 Guix&nbsp;System comes with GNU Linux-libre out of the box, and on
  58 Debian-based distros I install it from jxself's
  59 <a href="//jxself.org/linux-libre/">APT repository</a>.</p>
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  61 <h2>Actual computing</h2>
  62 <p>I spend most of my time in
  63 <a href="//www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.</p>
  64 <p>TODO: elaborate</p>
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  66 <h2>Cell phone</h2>
  67 <p>I have an old Nexus 5 I reluctantly use from time to time.  It runs
  68 LineageOS+microG without GApps.  Sadly it still requires some blobs
  69 for functioning.  I can't wait for lxo's
  70 <a href="//www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/0G">0G</a> to become a
  71 reality fast enough.
  72 <span class="smly">:-)</span></p>
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  74 <p class="muted inbox">Got a question or comment?  You can find my
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  76 <span class="smly">:-)</span></p>
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