I am feeling like writing a phlog, but I just have no idea what about. Maybe
it will come to me in the process. Sometimes I just feel like writing, and then
it just needs to happen. Oh! I already know. I will tell you all about the fact
that I just bought a new laptop this week. I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T14 1st gen
this week! I am quite happy with it. It ran Windows for a whole five minutes be-
fore I put Debian on it. The five minutes was spent using a very strange command
I found online to extract the product code and store it in a text file. To me it
is very strange that one has to go to PowerShell, type in a very specific, and
quite long, command, and then (and only then!) be presented with the product code
that was yours all along (!). It's like Microsoft is deliberately making that
hard for the average user. Really strange. I will use the code to put the
Windows 10 copy that I legally bought, and did not use, on a different PC for
someone who needs Windows as a result of needing a specific software that is
Windows-only.
The installation on the T14 (I bought the first gen on purpose, the second gen
was also on sale. But Linux does not have good coverage of Intel Iris graphics
yet) went off without a hitch. Make a USB stick (using dd) with Debian & non-free
firmwares, plop it in, boot from it, and 25 minutes later you're up and running.
Then use FUSE (gio) to connect to your old pc, move over the home directory, and
you're almost finished. Try that on a Windows machine....
The weather was nice today. A little over 22 degrees Centigrade, and clear skies
I really hope we get some more of that in the coming days.
