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80 lines
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Title: The Setup / Neale Pickett
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After reading [Russ Cox's setup](http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/)
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I thought it might be interesting to write up my own.
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September 18, 2014
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Who are you, and what do you do?
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I write software.
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Mostly I hack around the periphery of free software projects,
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occasionally tossing patches to projects that capture my interest.
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A partial portfolio is on my [source code page](src/).
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I also do computer security training for middle and high school kids,
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college students, and professionals.
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You can read about that at [dirtbags](http://dirtbags.net/).
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My hobbies include being a (laid back) disc jockey,
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and fiddling around with microcontrollers.
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Hardware
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I've decided to be very energy conscious.
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This means my hardware is low-power and not high-performance.
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At home, I have a Thinkpad X200.
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My wife uses a Chromebook, and we have a FitPC that gets turned on
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when we need to print on our HP LaserJet CM2320.
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My pre-teen daughter has a Nexus 7 tablet,
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and my wife and I both use Nexus 4 phones.
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We also have a Chromecast that's mostly used for Netflix,
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and a Wii.
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At work, I use an Intel NUC.
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Software
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I recently switched to Xubuntu from Arch Linux.
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I'm not sure I'll stay here, but I got tired of maintaining my one-off
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/sbin/init that uses runit.
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Linux distributions are all heading toward systemd,
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which I strongly dislike. But I figure it's time to catch up
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and abandon understanding how the computer boots.
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On the desktop, I run Google Chrome, xterm, and acme from plan9port.
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Occasionally I kick up inkscape or gimp, and mixxx for my DJ work.
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Most of my non-work computer use is through Chrome, which ties me strongly
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to Linux, for better or worse.
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My non-development stuff is almost entirely in the cloud.
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It's very frustrating to have to go to work where people are still emailing
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Excel spreadsheets and hand-merging edits.
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My FitPC print server runs Ubuntu and some kind of Chromium Cloud Print server thing.
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All my home printing is through Google Cloud Print.
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What would be your dream setup?
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A Chromebook that had Acme and my development tools.
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I really like how my wife's Chromebook updates itself,
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and how it doesn't need dozens of mystifying apps in the default menu.
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Some day I may figure out how to get Chrome to expose its window manager,
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and then I'll probably abandon all of XFCE4,
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since I don't really use it for anything other than kicking up Chrome
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and acme.
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I would also like to do away with the FitPC print server.
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I'd love to be able to buy a little box that will hop on our wireless network
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and connect our printer to Google Cloud Print.
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