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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&nbsp;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