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Literally this: “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” A Matter of Murder (TV Episode 1964) - IMDb

I haven’t run Arch in a few months, but I used to use CachyOS and Artix.

In the case of CachyOS, the repos have a few packages from the AUR pre-compiled, and linux-cachyos-hardened is a fantastic kernel flavour.

Artix, meanwhile, lets me use runit instead of systemd.

I also like the idea of Linux-libre, for which I would probably use Hyperbola (if not Guix). However, the only machine I own with a compatible WiFi chipset is a 32-bit MacBook from the 2000s, which I haven’t seen since 2024.

The preconfigured desktop and software is irrelevant to me. I have my own DE recipes and workflows that I can replicate across most Linux distros and BSDs.

Any part of an airport can be a play area if you’re creative enough.

Just take your own toilet roll with you. If you get separated from your supply, you probably have bigger problems.

Skill issue

I hack at night, when it’s cooler. You can’t see the digital rain otherwise.

On those specs? Well, you could try Librewolf and ungoogled-chromium, but I imagine they’ll be a tad sluggish.

NetSurf, Dillo, and Links2 are more suited to low-power machines, but they don’t support HTML5. Also, NetSurf’s JavaScript implementation is fairly old, and the other two don’t support JS at all. Furthermore, Links2 doesn’t support CSS (by design).

Ew