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Linux issues and a redo

Entered: in emacs on Gemini PDA | Date: 20220611

Gemian took a shit

I do not know exactly what happened, but on the way home the other day, I sudo apt upgrade'd and watched as scores of shit got uninstalled. I could have stopped it but didn't bother. As I suspected, the Gemini PDA would not boot after this.

Redo

So, when I got home I reflashed the Gemini PDA with Gemian only (no android) from the directory I had saved when I did it originally. This time, I knew what did and did not work from apt.

I once again installed Gnu Guix as my package manager. This would give me Emacs 28, current CA Certificates, and a slew of other non-outdated software. I have a 256GB µSD card mounted from /etc/fstab symlinked into /home as my user directory. Therefore, I lost nothing personal. Most things were also living in dropbox and/or gitlab.

I have completed the redo as of today. I installed stumpwm, and while I have keybindings to a terminal emulator (I like the mate-terminal, to each their own) I have been using vterm as my primary terminal.

Emacs Experiment

The living in Emacs experiment has been a resounding success so far. One clipboard for everything, an excuse to learn lispy things, and no need to open anything else (except the occasional web browser for heavy sites). I am likely to remain in this environment.