On those hot, sticky days nearing 40°C, when I dream of cool mountain air above 3000 meters, I instead lock myself indoors to wrestle with gadgets and tech. Today's victim? An ancient 2009 Asus EEE HA1005 32-bit netbook with just 1GB RAM.
Alpine Linux mostly works. Shockingly fast for something that should have been e-waste a decade ago. Now I'm deep in Flatpak troubleshooting hell because apparently, modern app ecosystems weren't built for machines this charmingly archaic. Going round in circles, but hey, that's half the fun, right?
