Roophloch 2024
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I am in a little public garden, waiting for my daughter during her
piano lesson. The month reaches its end and weather and time made
quite difficult for me to manage a Roophloch session. As it is the
last day, I take this opportunity.
I took with me my old Asus eeePC 900 with Debian and i3. It is a
quite slow device and I didn't realize that sun will be a problem on
a non-luminous screen with a dark theme. I don't have time to change
the theme and write the phlog entry, so I don't see very well what I
am writing.
The device itself was for me a revelation when it appeared in 2009.
It was the first time I saw a cheap mobile computer that was so easy
to put in your bag. It came with a Linux OS now disappeared, Xandros.
If the idea of putting something easy to use and not too different
from Windows was nice, the system was quite limited and I put Lubuntu
only a few weeks after purchasing. But the important fact was I had
a second computer at home, without Windows on it, and it helped me a
lot in the idea of leaving Windows without the risk of being stuck
during Linux installation.
Later I gave this computer to my 5 years old daughter. She made it
fall, damaging the articulation of the screen, but it still works.
These days, when I don't use it for Roophloch, I use it to program
and connect my Arduino board.
[1] Picture of the writing tool
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