![]() My editor is vim, and my web browser is chromium. I use the XFCE desktop environment, with the Xmonad window manager. I have one production web server that runs Debian stable instead, but mostly I can deal with any day-to-day glitches that come up using Debian unstable. I run Debian unstable on my laptop and most of my servers. ![]() When power is low, I often hack in the evenings by lantern light. So the whole house runs on 12 volt DC power to avoid the overhead of an inverter my laptop is powered through a succession of cheap vehicle power adapters, and my home server runs on 5 volt power provided by a USB adapter. I only get 50 amp-hours of juice on a sunny day, and often less than 15 amp-hours on a bad day. This place is nicely remote, and off the grid, relying on solar power. The only other active computer in the house is my home server and internet gateway a Sheevaplug with a wireless dongle and a dialup modem. If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw. I don't habitually use any cell phones or tablets. My preferred "desktop background" is some interesting view in back of my netbook's rather small screen. When the weather's good, I'm outside, or on the porch. I work in five or six different places and postures around the house. ![]() I have three remote servers of my own (most of them are really virtual machines), as well as access to quite a lot of others for various projects. Otherwise, my needs are modest, and if I need a faster computer I'll log into one remotely. I've upgraded the netbook's SSD, of course, and recently had to upgrade from 1 GB to 2 GB of memory because the linker needed more. I particularly need my laptop to be silent no fan become a requirement for me years ago, around the time I stopped using desktop computers. (The down arrow key is always the first to go.) I like the Mini's small size, easy access to expansion slots, and lack of any breakable moving parts other than the keyboard and hinge. I've been using it since 2008, and have worn out two keyboards. I do everything on a netbook, a Dell Mini 9. I'm also a long-time Debian developer, having been involved in building the Debian installer, and I run a 30-year delayed Usenet feed at. I'm funded by a Kickstarter project in 2012-2013 to build something not unlike DropBox, based on git-annex, that automatically version controls and syncs files between computers. So I've built etckeeper (managing /etc with git, for sysadmins), ikiwiki (wikis and blogs in git), and git-annex (applying git to very large files). The goal is to harness all the power that's been developed by developers for developers for managing source code, and redirect it to other purposes. Lately I've been focusing on programs that encourage broader use of version control systems, like git.
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