Interesting article. I never thought I’d see a moving line of poetry on a HN article, least of all one about PC hardware, and yet here I am. > I walk, I lift

Interesting article. I never thought I’d see a moving line of poetry on a HN article, least of all one about PC hardware, and yet here I am. > I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes I’ve discovered the pleasure of walking around my city since the pandemic started and when the weather is nice it’s a really wonderful thing to do. Even this morning it was lightly misting and still I enjoyed my walk. > It dual-boots Windows and Linux and is my only x86-64 computer. I like many things about macOS and the Apple ecosystem, but the walled garden of Apple still irks me. One of my favorite pieces of PC hardware was my 2015 MacBook. It was 12” and had a high resolution screen. It was extremely portable and beautiful to use. And yet, I feel like I agree with the author about the Apple walled garden. It’s not quite BSD and generally all of the software I write is for Linux. I’m going to be a true heathen: I have been using Ubuntu on the desktop for years and I finally grew tired of it. The experience is just IMO pretty poor as of a couple years ago. But I recently got a Windows PC for work and I use Windows Subsystem for Linux and it’s a real joy to work on so far. Maybe a Micro PC with WSL would give me a bit of a physically portable reminder of what I first loved about programming.