July 26th, 2019:

	I'm liking this old Eee PC.  I've been hacking about on it for the 
past few hours, and its 2009 battery still holds a three hour charge.  I 
think it'll do nicely as a mobile writing machine after all.  The keyboard 
isn't too cramped, and the keys are pretty responsive.

In other news, I learned of the Gemini protocol [1] today on Mastodon.  
It's a new protocol designed by Solderpunk that aims to be a midway point 
between Gopher and the Web.  Of course, being a curious type, I had to 
check it out.  My first attempt to build Asuka [2], julienxx's Gemini 
client, failed when I tried to build it on the Eee PC (something about 
ncurses?) but Solderpunk's AV-98 client [3] worked well.

Gemini looks interesting, will need to keep an eye on its development.

** EDIT **

I successfully built Asuka on the Eee PC.  Julienxx advised that I needed 
the ncurses and openssl dev packages in order to build Asuka, so I 
installed them and, an hour later, had a working Gemini client!

Many thanks to Julienxx!

References:

[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/gemini/faq.txt

[2] https://tildegit.org/julienxx/asuka

[3] https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98