Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

The new shiny that has me most interested this time around is being able to spin a "development playground". Using Disposable VM templates, I've populated both #Debian 10 and #Fedora 32 environments with my #Emacs settings, and tools for #Python and #Rust #development.

This lets me use powerful DispVMs to serve as staging grounds for things I'm not sure about using in Template/AppVMs yet, and then qvm-copy/move any notes or code I care about into Qubes with persistence for later use.

The power afforded by creating various NetVMs and/or ProxyVMs to allow you to be on numerous physical and/or virtual networks simultaneously (given enough network devices) was what attracted me to #QubesOS the most in the past, as much of my work at the time was down in the network realm. These features are still extremely useful, and along with compartmentalization, are what brought me back.

Day 9 back on #QubesOS full time, and I have to say things are working out very very well.

- MS Teams screen sharing is functional within my work AppVM

- USB block storage usability is quite easy and intuitive allowing for some creative and powerful backup solutions w/ a backup VM equipped with #BorgBackup

- Creating Disposable VM templates is easy and enables some outstanding development opportunities likely worth their own post

@Gina looks to me like the cat has already adopted *you*

@kyle I will be 0% surprised if they turn around and offer $5 in credit for some soon-to-be-purged part of their app ecosystem as a remedy.

@Gina want! I love banana bread

Can’t decide if I’m going to keep #PureOS on my @purism #Librem14 when it arrives, or install #QubesOS

Any thoughts from the fediverse?

Now that I’m nearing the end of this dyed wool
roving I can’t decide what I really want to do with the resulting yarn. Do I ply it over itself, or spin something neutral and ply it with that for a neat twist of color? Could also knit it as a single and make a very lightweight cowl or something. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#menwhoknit #wheremystitchesat

Writing async code is extremely new to me, but I was able to get some useful #Python tools done today and I’m not mad about it at all. One of my necessary targets is too old for the minimum Python version I need, so of course I’ll now be stepping into the world of async #Rust too.

@Gina that looks tasty!

Took today off for Veteran’s Day, one of two “holidays” I take every year to reflect on the road that got me here. Mixed bag of emotions, always.

Does it count as work if I configure network services for my own house on my day off?

@paleobiologist@fosstodon.org seems like a perfectly reasonable idea. My fiancée and I likely won’t travel home and don’t have a lot of friends where we live so I suspect I’ll be using up a lot of bandwidth on video calls for the holidays.

Having found the source of confusion, I went ahead and read the elisp for my airline theme which I probably should have done in the first place. This made it clear that I could load a regular theme first, and then load the airline theme after to get the best of both worlds. So, now I’m happily working with base16-irblack and airline-minimalist.

This all works great with my init.el available in both my Fedora and Debian TemplateVMs so any AppVM I spin in #QubesOS is a few seconds away from bliss

Two full months later I now have Local Admin on my work laptop. Time to load up the #FOSS that will make this machine almost useful.

@Gina indeed, I took my light jacket off on my bike ride to the office this morning. As a man from south Texas I’m not used to anything but my beer or margaritas ever being colder than 20C so it is extra weird to me to feel too warm here in November!

Just spent more than an hour trying to figure out how in the heck my Emacs config was having a different set of colors in my Qubes VMs than on my actual Fedora system. The answer was in a relic from my ancient set of dotfiles. I did not bring my .Xresources/.Xdefaults along for the ride this time, and those were in fact responsible for the non-powerline theme elements. The last time I thought I cared about these files was probably a decade ago!

#linux #emacs

If this was a parking spot in TX there would be a crane at work full time to pull trucks out of the water 😂

Took a break from messing with #QubesOS to take a nice socially distant walk through Delft. Everyone in town who knows me from the last year here has shouted their congratulations to me on the election in the US, as if my vote in TX counted for anything. For the last 17 years, or since I first actually read the constitution after swearing to support and defend it, I’ve cared far less about the constitutionally weak President than the immensely powerful Congress. Too bad it’s still broken.

@Gina knitting was used to encode messages during “the war” by the precursor to those who would fall under the umbrella of special forces today. To bring it full circle pretty much the most important non-armament thing to any ground solider: socks. Maybe that’s why I like knitting them so much? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Borgbackup is awesome. That is all. #FOSS