A couple of weeks ago, Veronica decided to convert an old laptop into a writerdeck , a dedicated writing device free from the distractions of the modern internet. Lots of folks build really elaborate offline devices for this, and I’d love to do that… someday. Right now I have no shortage of projects and the point is to get writing, so I used what I had: a six-year-old laptop which still runs great, has plenty of power, but isn’t getting much use anymore. I installed console-only Debian. I added some packages to make it work better for writing: network-manager  for connecting to hotspots while I’m away kmscon  for custom fonts and more than 16 colors in the tty tmux  for a nice status bar and rudimentary screen tiling, as well as  acpi  and  light  for battery and backlight details, respectively neovim  as my editor and  vim-vimwiki  to give myself a personal wiki syncthing  to sync and backup my work I’ve had this thing going for a week or so now,…