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"Since installing NixOS on a little Minisforum PC, I’ve been a full-time NixOS user at home (I use a MacBook Pro at work). I’m going to be finishing work next Autumn, so I will probably put some form of Linux on the MacBook at that point. However, as it is an Apple Silicon machine and it has a T-whatever-it-is security chip in it, my options may be practically limited to installing Asahi Linux rather than NixOS. I may also dual-boot with macOS for a while to keep a foot in that camp and maintain compatibility with iOS, if I am still using an iPhone then. Asahi is a heroic project, given the hurdles of trying to reverse engineer some very proprietary and locked-down hardware, but there is a limit to what they can do in terms of compatibility. I decided to buy a used PC laptop to install NixOS on, and settled on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 9). I’ll explain why I chose this model, how the installation went, and the upgrades I made."

"Those of you who read my blog regularly will know that some of my posts are rather niche. I have to warn you now that this one attains a whole new level of nichey-ness. However, in my usual spirit of ‘this is interesting to me’ and ‘writing it down helps me to remember it later’, here it is. This article might also be interesting to you if you:"

"We all love to start new things. It’s exciting! The creativity overfloweth! Keeping those things maintained over the longer term is harder work, and can seem boring and routine. It’s an act of resistance to keep caring for the thing you created, but the great thing is that it pays you back more and more the longer that you continue to do it. It’s also work that — in my opinion — you should do yourself, with your own hands and brain. Let me try to explain why."

"We haven’t gone away on holiday for the past couple of years. It doesn’t feel fair to leave Bianca (now a grand old lady of 20) in a boarding cattery, so either only one of us can go away (the other staying at home to look after Bianca), or neither of us do. Mr. Bsag very kindly volunteered to do the cat-sitting for a couple of successive years, but it didn’t feel the same going away without him. Now that my ME/CFS is worse, it has also taken away the main thing that we went away for: taking long walks in the countryside."

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NixOS on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon

The one true keyboard layout

The joy of maintenance

Hidcote

The waiting room

Is this thing still on?