Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

Did some Emacs Org-mode flexing today in my extended meeting schedule. Very glad I decided after decades of vi advocacy to give Emacs a shot.

@kyle we even have apps to talk to spirits I’m sure

@purism very exciting!

@dos that’s great! Might breathe new life into a small wireless keyboard I used to use when my day to day involved an RPi with a tiny screen and a battery pack so I could have a small computer with a real terminal in my pocket. Glad there’s now a much better way to accomplish that, and can’t wait to get my Librem 5

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.