I love selling things that have served me well - it feels better knowing that they’re helping someone instead of sitting in a drawer, untouched.

Same!

I had bought it, installed Debian on it, and had been using it for more than a week before I discovered that it has a touchscreen :-D

Very nice laptop.

Nano, srsly?

Same. I feel accurately portrayed.

She uses Gentoo.

In British slang, if you called someone a brick, you meant a solid, dependable person. If you go onto Google Books and search for “You’re a brick”, you’ll find lots of examples, applied to men and women.

It comes from someone asking where the walls of Sparta were, and Lycurgus pointing at the army, saying “Behold the walls of Sparta, every man a brick”.

I literally just did this over the past few weeks. I bought four ESP32-C3 minis on expansion boards (The expansion boards come with PH2.0mm connectors and built in battery charging management, so that I can add battery power next - already ordered the LiPo batteries. At the moment they’re plugged into USB-C phone chargers) and four SHT-41 temperature and humidity meters. I then installed the espressif development environment and (don’t shoot me, I was under time pressure) vibe-coded the setup for the ESP boards: they broadcast the readings every 10 seconds via mosquitto.

I also bought a barebones raspberry pi and made it subscribe to the mosquitto feeds and write the data to a sqlite database, and created a basic flask website that reads the data from sqlite and shows the graphs and the temperature readings to anyone on my local wifi.

My code is on codeberg - I’d be happy to share the link if any of this is relevant to you.

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https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it’s lacking is a good text editor.

I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.

git config --global core.editor "ed"

if you don’t like using vim.

Yes, started using vi when I started using a Unix login at university. That was in about 1994 or so. When I started using Linux it was definitely vim.

I’ve tried using evil-mode and vim keybindings in other editors. I somehow keep coming back to vim, though.

Oh, I didn’t realise that! Apparently security updates come to unstable and stable before they go to testing.

I kind of like having up to date packages. Now I’m not sure whether I should rather switch to Sid, or watch the vulnerable source package list.

Yeah, that tracks - I came back to Debian after a few years on Ubuntu, and even before I returned, I removed snap from my Ubuntu system.

Depends a bit on what you want to do.

Debian stable tends to have rather old versions of everything, but Debian testing (currently codename Forky) is really nice. I installed it a few months ago on my ThinkPad, and it’s running beautifully.

I’m not in it for the uptime, so I shut down whenever I’m done and when I shut down, I do an update / upgrade, and there’s always something being upgraded. I’ve had zero issues with stability or performance.

I have no experience with Arch, so I can’t really compare.

I’ve always been doing apt dist-upgrade. What’s the difference between dist-upgrade and full-upgrade?

The Staci files can give us further insight

Autocorrect doing God’s work there.

unzip, strip, touch, finger, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep

That’s the cool thing about git. You can just create a blank codeberg repo and then do:

git remote add codeberg <URL>
git push codeberg --mirror

Of course, this won’t include issues and other GitHub specific stuff, but it’s much more robust than most other tools.

If Linus had only ever created git, he’d still have his place high up in the programmer’s pantheon.