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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I have a System76 laptop with Pop-OS LTS that I’ve been using for about 2 years now. It’s very stable. It’s gnome based with customizations by System76.

    I was allowed to choose any laptop I wished with a budget of $3k. I chose this system because I knew I’d heavily be working with many docker containers. It allowed me to purchase a system with support that had more ram and nvme storage than what a mac offered.

    I use it mostly for writing backend golang and python services. I used emacs for many years to do this kind of work, but have switched to vscode for code navigation convenience and parity with others on my team if we have to pair program.







  • Pentium 200mmx, 32 mb ram, and I think a 5gig hard drive with windows 95. I don’t remember the original display adapter, but later it had a voodoo banshee put in it. We also upgraded the CPU to one of those evergreen technologies k6-2 400 MHz. Later we switched to windows 98 and a bigger hard drive. I think we must have upgraded the RAM too, but I don’t remember. It was a true ship of Theseus.

    Edit: also don’t remember the original sound card but I think it ended with a sound blaster live with the emu10k chip.