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Updated post!
Chimera Linux is a delightful community-driven distribution built from scratch that does things differently: `musl` instead of the typical `glibc` for C library, `dinit` over `systemd` for system init, and a userland derived from FreeBSD core tools.
I show the choices I make to create an encrypted, minimal system with "just enough" to provide a solid foundation to build upon further:
Die LINUX Alternative für euren GAMING PC! VERGESST Windows - Bazzite OS im Test
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To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
We try these things not because they are easy, etc etc.
Big Tech these days forcefeeding this thing called "AI" which only few wants to pay money for and which is much less flexible & futuristic than classic approaches.
The forcefeeding has for months been headlines on respectable news websites. Blogs say it also:
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/instagram-photo-filter-change-user-frustration/
User calls out 'annoying' AI feature implementation strategy: 'It's all ... so exhausting'
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/instagram-photo-filter-change-user-frustration/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Wrote new article — about how to use some ThinkPad-specific keys with FreeBSD. Most of the Fn-keys and volume control separate keys could be uses "as is" — the OS passes the proper and well-known keycodes (like XF86audioMute, etc) to the X server. But some keys needs some "black magic" (devd and acpi_ibm kernel module).
The bonus point — how to use ThinkLight to signal about low battery level with Morse code 
https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2026/03/24/freebsd-thinkpad-specific-keys.html
Thinkpad laptops, e.g. mine Thinkpad X220, has a lot of functional keys. Some of them work without any problems — they are passed by the underlying kernel to the X server and it recognizes them as a usual key symbols: XF86AudioMute, XF86AudioRaiseVolume, XF86AudioNext, etc. But some special keys are not passed to the X server from the underlying OS layers.
Chimera Linux does things differently: the distro is built from scratch, musl instead of glibc, init is dinit, FreeBSD userland, ...
Fresh install on my Thinkpad using OpenZFS and ZFSBootMenu. Curious to explore further. I'm thinking of a setup where Chimera is my desktop and FreeBSD on a home server.
A machine comes with correct or incorrect word-sequences.
The "honesty" of a machine is not the same honesty as when a human says something which to herself/himself is deeply true, and which enables an actual and real communication & meeting with other humans.
Education requires communication.
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