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
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. 🤷🏻♂️
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.
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!
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.
Borgbackup is awesome. That is all. #FOSS
Running #QubesOS on my NUC again. I’ve missed the compartmentalization the last year or two as it’s been impossible to get any work done on my company machine. It’s been a while, and a major release, since my last run with Qubes but I should be up and running again soon.
Released v0.2.1 of my connection checkin’ #Rust project today to fix some error handling issues, and reduce some duplicate code into a generic function making use of a common trait.
Next release I’ll add support for JSON payloads in the http(s) checker.
Announcing the Librem Mini V2
"The Librem Mini v2 in just about all respects matches the Mini v1 including the same base price. The big difference is that we can now offer a new, 10th gen i7-10510U Intel processor. "
The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket
https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/
"One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren’t general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control so that you don’t own a smartphone so much as you rent it."
Crazy week at work ended on a positive note. After making an insane number of commits and PRs across way too many projects it finally became clear where the blocking issue was hiding. With that fixed progress can continue. The lack of meaningful tests at any level, from the unit up through systems integration, is a serious problem.
I like to work with my hands. That may mean hammering out solutions to complex problems in #Python or #Rust, building things in my shop, or spinning yarn to knit something warm. You’ll likely see some of all of that here. By day (and sometimes night) I keep >13k nodes and services alive in the Electric Vehicle sector.
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