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Been a minute since I last posted anything here. Between the heat, work shenanigans, and distro-hopping, it feels like it's always something. Anyway.
Rolled off my last client at work a couple of weeks ago, which means now I get time before the next client to skill up on whatever I want. So I picked DevOps, because I'm an infrastructure nerd. (It's a bit silly, tbh; heck, the first thing I built on my friend's latest Minecraft SMP was a redstone-switched cargo rail network, complete with auto-unloaders.) The materials I picked to learn from (DevOps For The Desperate by Bradley Smith, which I'd picked up in a bundle awhile back) suggest working in Linux (of course), so I took the long-overdue opportunity to re-install Linux on my desktop.
I picked MX Linux, because it's based on Debian (so, common package format) without using systemd by default (I'm old-school like that). But it still has Flatpak support by default, and some of the best out-of-the-box hardware support I've encountered so far, even beating out PopOS and Mint. This is relevant because I liked it so much I installed it on my laptop, a Lenovo Legion 7, replacing PopOS. Plasma runs like a dream on it, though I'm using i3 on my desktop because dragging windows around that monitor nest is far more trouble that it's worth.
Along with this, I figured it was high time I started managing my dotfiles properly. This is still a work in progress, since I need to learn the templating system, but I've been using Chezmoi to keep them in sync across all my machines. It's using GitHub by default on the back-end, which is... less than ideal, but I can change it when I figure out alternate hosting, so it's fine for now. So far it's just my neovim init.vim, though at some point I'll get the template sorted out for my .zshrc too. Then I'll feel more comfortable dumping all of them in.
Speaking of neovim, turns out there's an org-mode plugin for versions 0.9.1+, which is awesome. Of course, Debian's repos are still on 0.7.2, so I guess I'm building it myself for the foreseeable future. Worth it.