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Hello Sprout

Sprout is the name of my new machine that just arrived. The crowd-funded laptop. Since this beauty is graciously sponsored by a large crowd of people a felt I should share a little bit of its journey and entry into my life. First I needed a name for it, and since it is small and … Continue reading Hello Sprout →

I noticed two different Linux distributions offered as “easy installs” with guides from Framework, but as none of them were Debian I opted to take the more complicated route. I experienced some glitches (X or the keyboard or something would stop accepting input after 5-15 minutes of use), which I first thought was due to an older Linux kernel as I had friends tell me that I might need 6.15+ for proper hibernation support and Debian unstable only has a 6.12 one just now. Having a small but high DPI screen and trying to use the console with its default (tiny) font is next to impossible, at least with my aging eyes, so I spent a few minutes to figure out how to use setfont and then to invoke dpkg-reconfigure console-setup.

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