Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

@Gina nice!

Living on the wild side: firmware upgrades 7min before my stand up.

Here’s to hoping I actually get to do some climbing in the next two years. I moved to Europe prepared to climb every weekend of the season but then 2020 happened and the only climbing I’ve done is up the stairs into bed.

@Gina the comic makes use of negative space and numerous other decidedly art-school elements so clearly it must be art right? There’s really no set of definitive traits that makes one creative work art and denies another the same label. Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Wireshark and ripgrep ended up really being all I added to Tails. Oh, and a persistent .bashrc with the critical ‘set -o vi’ addition.

And let me just say how cool it is that a Tails stick I created a month ago booted up and immediately said “upgrade!!!!”

Worked like a charm too.

Sometimes I still expect nothing to work after an upgrade like the old days when a new kernel most likely meant you’d spend a week trying to figure out why your audio didn’t work anymore.

Since I’m not a huge fan of the “need” to carry multiple machines around with me everywhere I go, I’m setting up a Tails drive with the tools I need to act remotely in emergencies from any machine I can USB boot. My hope is that in the near future I can use a Librem 5 to handle my remote admin needs directly. Where apps do not exist for my specific needs, I intend to create them since that’s part of the beauty of open software and systems.

@Gina seriously, I was in Amsterdam with a friend today and it was like walk one block with an umbrella and my sleeves down. Walk the next block with my sleeves rolled up sweating and my umbrella awkwardly dripping everywhere oh wait nevermind now it’s raining again and I’m cold 🤯

@Gina thanks for the tips! Once my fiancée joins me here and I have someone to belay me I will definitely check it out 🙏🏼

Made it the entire week without feeling compelled to launch VS Code. Developing in Vim, alongside my native terminal tooling and needs was actually very enjoyable. Time to `sudo dnf -y remove code`

It looks like Hurricane Laura for the most part spared my family reliving the damages sustained in Harvey and so many other storms in recent years. Having mucked houses and done recovery work many times now my heart goes out to those who took it head on in Louisiana.

@kyle given how much time I spend fixing the aftermath of bugs that made it through some level of testing and review I’m not letting anything chmod 777 my neurons.

@kyle hard pass

All dev this week has been in vim, and it’s working out very well for me. My config is here: https://github.com/anthonyjmartinez/vim-config

@Gina welcome to the club :) and yeah, it gets real expensive real fast.

@Gina lead is what I’m after! I don’t mind toprope either. I’ve had two surgeries on the same knee and my surgeon isn’t especially keen on the idea of me bouldering again. All I have to do is not fall right??

@Gina any notable sport climbing gyms you know of in NL? When I moved here last year I brought my sport and trad racks intending to hit the crags down in France/Spain/Italy, but then this pandemic thing happened and I haven’t climbed anything but my stairs in months. Probably die if I even look at a 7a now 😂

In the 20yrs I’ve been a #linux user I’ve always used vi(m) as my editor of choice, but it wasn’t until this week that I bothered to add a single plugin or add more than some filetype/extension-based indentation preferences to my .vimrc. Today, I managed to get quite a lot of development done without launching VS Code once. Not mad about that one bit.