From:   acresearch
Date:   18-ARL-2019
Title:  It's been a while
___________________

I forgot that I have a blog on Gopher, haha.

I am having issues with my laptop's wifi. I am on a macbook pro running Ubuntu, but for some reason the OS keeps crashing the wifi, or 
the wifi keeps crashing the OS, anyway it is annoying and I have to keep it connected to the ethernet. So I am thinking of moving to a 
different linux distro, I tried antergos (but the installation often crashed), I tried manjaro (but the community support was horrible + 
it was a very heavy OS), Arch was just a pain to install, I tried several times and it was not worth the effort, I do not have the hours 
of time to spend fixing each minor issue. Solus was great but the repos was small for the type of work I do. So looks like I am stuck 
with Ubuntu and its crappy wifi implementation for the near future. Its not that bad, I do not take my laptop anywhere anyway. The only 
reason I have this laptop rather than a desktop (and a mac) because I got it got free.

I was inspired by LOST (the TV show) to setup sort of a timeless computer. At least a computer that ages well, not sure if I can explain 
it well. I found another broken laptop (HP) and fixed it, it had an issue with windows, so not really broken, but the original owner got 
another laptop and gave me this HP for free. I decided to attempt to set it up so as to remain functional for the longest period 
possible.

I added antergos linux to it, but kept it as a terminal only OS, very basic, no GUI, nothing, and installed some programs that help it 
function well. After using it for a week, I found out that I can actually do EVERYTHING on the temrinal except two things (view/play 
media and web browsing). I love the terminal. I can web browse using LYNX, but it is not really practicle. If there is a way to have the 
terminal display GUIs on demands (rather than a GUI displays a terminal on demand) that would be perfect. Some people might suggest the 
i3 desktop environment, but it is not technically a terminal so its not for me.

So back to the timeless laptop. I love the idea, such a simple setup and a rolling release, I hope I can keep it working for as long as 
possible. Now the question is what to do with it, hahaha.

Where I hangout: irc.freenode.net #biology (but I am not always online)