Seems the breakage of my desktop computer more than 3 months ago did also caused also a hiatus on my online publishing activities... it was not really intended, it happened I was just busy with other things
_ .
With a broken computer being able to build software on the laptop became a priority. Around September 2016 or so the good'n'old black
MacBook decided to stop working. I didn't really need a replacement by that time, but never liked to have just a single working system, and in October just found an offer which I could not resist and bought a
ThinkPad X260. It helped to build
my final project (it was faster than the desktop), but lacking time for
FOSS hadn't used it for much more.
Setting up the laptop for software (Debian packages and
Claws Mail, mainly) was somewhat easy. Finding a replacement for the broken desktop was a bit more difficult. I considered a lot of configurations and prices, from those new
Ryzen to just buying the same components (pretty difficult now because they're discontinued). In the end, I decided to spend the minimum and make good use of everything else still working (memory, discs and wireless card), so I finally got an
AMD A10-7860K on top of an
Asus A88M-PLUS. This board has more
SATA ports, so I added an unused
SSD, remains of a broken laptop, to install the new system Debian Stretch, of course
while keeping the existing software RAID partitions of the spinning drives.
The last thing distracting from the usual routine was replacing the car. Our child is growing as expected and the
Fiesta was starting to appear small and uncomfortable, specially for long distance travel. We went for an hybrid model, with a high capacity boot. Given our budget, we only found 3 models below the limit: Kia Niro, Hyundai Ioniq and Toyota Auris TS. The color was decided by the kid (after forbidding black), and this was the winner...
In the middle of all of this we also took some vacation to travel to the
south of Galicia, mostly around
Vigo area, but also visiting
Oporto and other nice places.