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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

This is a woefully underpowered laptop I got for free! I'm working to make it into a secure portable machine (since it does support secureboot & TPM-backed disk encryption) to take on the go that I don't fear losing. This is mostly for doing programming & study, on stuff that doesn't require high-performances, so the 2 gigs of RAM are just about enough for regular use -- and it prevents me from being distracted, as I can't load most website on that poor thing…

I'm using 2 bars -- I originally only wanted to use a vertical one, unfortunately not all waybar modules support rotation, so I settled for this, which works quite well in my experience :3

Stuff I use:

  • Catppuccin Frappe as a color scheme on most things
  • Emacs for programming & taking notes (org-mode my beloved)
  • Alacritty as a terminal, with the fish shell
  • Firefox (fuck chromium)
  • stmps as a music player, connected to my selfhosted Nextcloud instance, with a bunch of songs obtained through legal means (obviously)
  • Waybar for a bar, with nm-applet for controlling networkmanager and blueman-applet for controlling bluetooth
  • fcitx5 + mozc for japanese input
  • dwl with the following patches
    • ipc
    • toplevel management
    • touchscreen
    • autostart

I will probably release all my configs in an organized way once I feel like this setup is closer to completion.

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[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I really dig your setup!

Do you have a link for the wallpaper?

[-] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

it's this one with the background colour paintbucketed to match my frappe theme

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago
[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's a cool project but what's that about the search engine?

[-] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Nice. 2GB is just an awkward amount of ram so I feel you. I have 16GB on my desktop but most of the time I use between 2 and 3 GB. The browser being the main customer of course. So 2GB is just a bit short of being comfy. Good luck.

this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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