The Vortex Pok3r is a 60% keyboard that I got as a gift from a friend. It’s a solid keyboard but the firmware is proprietary and quite restrictive; I like to set the arrows keys to follow the vi keybindings (h,j,k,l), this is not possible with the stock firmware, besides that I also use the caps lock key as left control, this is possible, but it is always better to have full control of all the keys.

I don’t remember the exact day that my desktop PC decided to stop working, but it did, and since then I have been using a single board computer as my daily driver, the Khadas VIM3, with an old NVME drive running Manjaro. As a PC it is usable (probably better than the Raspberry Pi) but the lack of RAM memory is very noticeable. The VIM3 is an Amlogic A311D with 4 GB of RAM.

I have an extra Raspberry Pi4 doing basically nothing, and with the Nano R4S on its way to replace my router I’d soon have 2 Pi4 doing nothing, so until I find a purpose for them, why not get them to mine a bit! I’ve been a huge fan of Monero, I like everything of it, from the name (in Esperanto, a language that I have been slowly trying to learn) to its superb privacy.

I believe ARM architecture to be the future; and while I wait for the Khadas VIM3 to arrive I thought it may be a good idea to see if the Raspberry Pi could replace my desktop (I hope to achieve that with the VIM3). My Linux distribution of choice is Slackware, one of the many reasons that I like it for, is that you get a sort of two distros in one: It can be a rolling distribution (just like Arch Linux) or a fixed one.

I’m still trying to figure out the best workflow for me, for now I’m using Emacs with Org mode, the package that generates the Markdown from the org files is called ox-hugo. I’m using the development version of Spacemacs and the installation was super easy. My configuration looks like this: dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '( (org :variables org-want-todo-bindings t org-enable-hugo-support t) ) All the posts (blogs entries) are in one file, as recommended by ox-hugo, each entry is a todo.

First post! I’ve finally decided to return to blogging, or at least to give it a try. The idea is to document my ideas, projects and failures. I’ll be using Hugo to generate the site and GitHub’s pages to host it.