# about

Most of this should be moved to my personal wiki

This is an "rsync repo tracked with git" for my dotfiles; see
"context" section at the end for more detail.

It essentially contains the minimal set of deviations from "Devuan
with LXDE" defaults that I require in order to not find the computer
to be an active hindrance to my productivity:

# new system config

terminology:

- being-set-up machine = mark
- already-set-up machine = pilot

## devuan


### SSHD config

- copy `id_rsa.pub` from laptop
- edit `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` to sane defaults

in particular:

1. **disable root login**
2. **disable password login**

### sudo

- add `pharpend` to `sudo` group:

  ```
  # apt install sudo
  # usermod -aG pharpend sudo
  ```

### firefox


```
% sudo apt install firefox
```

- rsync firefox passwords
- add to firefox

### git

```
% sudo apt install git
% git config --global init.defaultBranch master
% git config --global user.name "Peter Harpending"
% git config --global user.email "peter@harpending.org"
```

### `git.harpending.org`

- ssh keygen

  ```
  % ssh-keygen
  % cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
  ```

- go to `git.harpending.org` on pilot machine, add ssh key to user
  profile


### dotfiles

```
% mkdir ~/gho
% cd ~/gho
% git clone https://git.harpending.org/pharpend/dotfiles-ii.git
```

### tmux

```
% sudo apt install tmux
% cp ~/gho/dotfiles-ii/tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
```

### zsh

```
% sudo apt install zsh zsh-syntax-highlighting
% cp ~/gho/dotfiles-ii/zshrc ~/.zshrc
% chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh
```


### vim

```
% sudo apt install vim vim-pathogen
```

```
% cp -rv ~/gho/dotfiles-ii/vimrc ~/.vimrc
% cp -rv ~/gho/dotfiles-ii/vim ~/.vim
```


### i3

pulls in i3wm, i3lock, i3status, dunst:

```
% sudo apt install i3
% mkdir ~/.i3
% cp -rv ~/gho/dotfiles-ii/i3/config ~/.i3/config
% cp -rv ~/gho/dotfiles-ii/i3status.conf ~/.i3status.conf
```

### fonts

```
% sudo apt install fonts-liberation fonts-fantasque-sans font-manager
```

to refresh font cache:

```
% fc-cache -fv
```

### terminator

```
% sudo apt install terminator
% rsync -avn ~/gho/dotfiles-ii/config/ ~/.config
```

### terminator

### music

music

  - dry run (for making sure didn't fuck up confusing af slash syntax):

    ```
    % rsync -avn Music/ pharpend@mark:/home/pharpend/Music
    ```

  - wet run:

    ```
    % rsync -av Music/ pharpend@mark:/home/pharpend/Music
    ```

### `apt install` shell utilities

exhaustive-ish

```
# apt install\
    build-essential \
    gcc \
    git \
    rsync \
    sudo \
    tmux \
    tree \
    vim \
    vim-pathogen \
    zsh \
    zsh-syntax-highlighting \
```

### `apt install` desktop utilities


```
# apt install\
    blueman \
    emacs \
    firefox \
    i3 \
    gthumb \
    guake \
    kde-spectacle \
    mpc \
    mpd \
    ncmpcpp \
    nitrogen \
    redshift \
    rxvt-unicode \
    terminator \
```



## freebsd

- copy `id_rsa.pub`
- enable ssh sysadmin:

      # pw groupmod wheel -m pharpend

- basic shell utilities

      # pkg install tmux zsh vim rsync git lynx tree bash

- basic graphical environment

      # pkg install \
              xorg i3 terminator rxvt-unicode dmenu \
              liberation-fonts-ttf pulseaudio parcellite dunst \
              nitrogen redshift firefox-esr fantasque-sans-mono \
              emacs pcmanfm pavucontrol spectacle plasma6-spectacle \
              scrot vlc viewnior gthumb \

              linux-brave
              chromium
              iridium

- Erlang/zx

      # pkg install \
            erlang erlang-wx

# context

- I set up new machines pretty frequently
- This has endowed me with a strong preference for low-maintenance
  operating systems with sane defaults
- The idea here is to have the "minimal" set of dotfiles where I can
  clone this repo and just copy everything to its location on the new
  machine
- I have found that the system of directly symlinking my dotfiles
  from the git repo to the local machine is more trouble than it's
  worth, due to high volume of per-machine diffs.
- e.g. laptop needs battery charge info in i3status bar config,
  desktop machine doesn't; there's a million little things like that
  that differ from one machine to another
- like i said, this is the set of things that despite my best efforts

- In the past I used Gentoo and Arch Linux and and and and...
- That was fun and fulfilling when I was 17 and I had no serious
  responsibilities in my life.
- to be clear, the "I use Arch BTW" phase was an extremely valuable
  period in which I learned the skills on which I now rely on a day
  to day basis. 
- However I'm now in my 30s, and, for better or for worse, I have
  aged out of finding Arch Linux interesting.
- I just can't bring myself to care about the operating system for
  its own sake any more.
- I have converged on "Devuan for everything" because it annoys me
  the least
- In the past it was "Ubuntu for everything" but replacing the GNU
  coreutils with the Rust coreutils (why?) was the straw that broke
  the camel's back for me.
- I don't know why systemd or snaps weren't that straw