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The Old Computer Challenge is going on again this year. I'm going to be using an Acer Aspire One netbook. It has a single CPU, and a stick of RAM that sometimes thinks it's 900M, and sometimes thinks it's 2G. I've limited it to 512M and CPUs to 1 (on the kernel command line: nr_cpus=1 mem=512M) so we'll see how that goes.
This machine was given to me by a neighbor, and it was in practically new condition. The battery actually works which is pretty great for a laptop from 2008. Today, I disassembled it fully, and found a few interesting facts.
I'm using Alpine Linux 3.18, with the kernel from Alpine Linux 3.17 (Linux 5.15), because there are graphical glitches on the newer kernel. I've yet to report the bug since I found it this morning.
I've had to set "HandleLidSwitch=ignore" in /etc/elogind/logind.conf because if I don't, the laptop will suspend every 30 seconds. I'm not sure if the switch is broken or if the driver is not great.
I'm not doing much on day 1 other than getting it set up and writing this for my onw future reference. Here's to hoping it goes well.