<p>After months (or years?) of waffling and false starts I finally bought an <a href="https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ASUS-VivoBook-15-X542UA/">ASUS X542U</a>. The advertised specs say &quot;up to&quot;, but I don’t have the &quot;up to&quot;, I have the baseline 7th gen i3, 128GB SSD, 4 GB RAM.</p>
<p>Here’s the rambling story of a laptop purchase and its various side quests.</p>
<p>Some details that may or may not have made it in to the show (and the show has some that aren’t there) available on the Fediverse at <a href="https://pleroma.heldscal.la/notice/7204988" class="uri">https://pleroma.heldscal.la/notice/7204988</a> .</p>
<p>Side quest to the side quest of making an episode about side quests:</p>
<p>Why spend five minutes writing a simple Makefile when you can spend half an afternoon writing a <a href="https://gitlab.com/clacke/hpr/blob/master/default.nix">simple default.nix</a> instead?</p>