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Title: MacBook Down
Date: June 28, 2024
Written On: Emacs on Dell Latitude E6430 (Debian 12)

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  Whelp! The power brick for my MacBook Pro decided to fail, so I'm on my Dell
laptop now. I transfered all of my files earlier, but now I'm *really* glad I
did so. This isn't something I was expecting to happen any time soon, so I get
to figure out all new workflows with no real safety net! I mean, I was going to
go this route anyway, but I was planning on it being on a RPi 400 or something,
and not a sudden moment of panic.

  Mind you, I was hoping to take my time with this, but as I've learned in my
life, time will never let you keep your plans.

  Now, I'm on Debian, running MATE and pretty much nothing but GIMP, Pale Moon,
Firefox, and a number of CLI/TUI apps in a terminal. I even got mutt and slrn
set up for email and newsgroups, and *just* got my RSS feeds imported into
newsboat as I started writing this. Haven't grabbed bashpodder[0] to grab my
podcast list yet, but I should still have my modified version of it somewhere
that is a bit better sorted for the config files. At least I have Emacs and
Wordgrinder to keep me going.

  For today and tomorrow, I think I'm going to get myself settled again, and go
figure out what kinds of templates and such that I need to sort out. Also
need to get something set up for my private blog again... Let's see if I can
get Chronicle going, along with my Perl toolbox.

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[0]: https://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/