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I dug up my old Lenovo N22 netbook. It's like the Lenovo Chromebook, but with a not-shitty keyboard, so there's that. It's meant to be a lightweight box for working on special projects and working on my lower computing profile lifestyle, and right now I've got stumpwm running on it with i3 as a fallback if I end up not wanting to stick with stumpwm. The big thing is stump uses a lot more memory than i3, and this machine has 4G of memory (and only a 32G eMMC drive, though there's a 128G USB drive plugged in for extra data storage). One thing I'd forgotten is that it hates life if you install a BIOS bootloader on it, and requires a UEFI install. I actually have a pair of these laptops, so now maybe I should try getting alpine working. Probably won't be diskless, though.
It's got mostly the bare minimums: a Go and Rust toolchain (the latter mostly to build software, because it turns out there's a lot of interesting software written in Rust), some gemini/gopher clients, etc. I kind of wanted to use it to take notes on things I'm reading while outside, and I feel like the bigger laptop encourages me to get distracted more easily. I'm thinking about giving Rust another try, too. I need to find a project that I don't mind spending the time learning it on. That being said, I'm trying to figure out how to patch asuka to visit a URL specified on the command line, which involves figuring out cursive.
Note to self: should put together a list of skills I want to learn.
The Hawken kit showed up today, should be interesting. Also, I ordered another touchscreen and a Pi 4. I was wondering about trying to find a TPM module or something equivalent; I have the ATECC608 boards with the SFE Qwiic connectors; while on SFE today browsing LCD options, I found out they have a tiny shim with a Qwiic connector so I can probably use that.
Other than that, I haven't really gotten shit done today. I've got a Pi Zero with headers coming (somehow I lost the headers and it's cheap enough to grab one) too that I want to experiment with getting an alpine-based server running on. My dream setup has a meshnet-connected pi (hooked up to a solar panel or something) and maybe pare my remote stuff down to a router box that my machines connect to as a mesh net proxy. I've been looking back at cjdns/hyperboria and yggrasil; so far, I don't have yggdrasil working and all the cjdns public nodes I found listed are dead. Question: is there a better mesh network that I should be trying to connect to?
My winter woods trip was canceled; I was hoping to get out and try a bushcrafty overnighter (instead of just relying on a nice tent), but the wilderness area I was going to is closed due to fire danger. Bummed, because next year night school will basically keep me from being able to camp.
Most of the parts for the 'deck should show up on Sunday so I really (*really*) need to spend tomorrow cleaning.