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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