GNU/Linux
I had some time off and decided to use it for something I'd been meaning to do for ages: go all-in on a proper GNU/Linux setup. I felt hopeful and excited to finally have the space to do things that interest me.
Here's what I set out to do:
- Install a fresh distribution of Parabola Linux on my machines and set up my own unix environment with a window manager (probably dwm) and an interesting desktop environment.
- Make my own email and git server.
- Migrate to a CLI password and OTP manager such as GNU Pass.
- Delete a load of accounts I just don't need anymore, starting with Google as the last of the FANG accounts left for me.
- Host my own website, and write it from scratch, or at least build a pre-existing open source solution from scratch on my own hosting, such as WriteFreely.
- Set up my Raspberry Pi 400 as a seedbox and a tinker station; perhaps, ultimately using the GPIO to flash my ThinkPad x230 to coreboot.
- Set up a proper backup system of hard-drives, cron, and rsync. The cloud is out for me at the moment, unless I find one that aligns with my philosophies and I upload only encrypted files to it. It's entirely possible I will do that, just having to scour through 4000 providers is not my cup of tea at the moment.
- Watch and go through the exercises of 'The Missing Semester' from MIT CS.
That was a lot. Of course, I also planned to write a basic data privacy guide for friends and family as a way of having some start-up content on my new home on the internet.
Onwards and upwards.