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+         <p>Raw link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14Hw6twxgc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14Hw6twxgc</a></p>
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+         <p>My laptop broke a few weeks ago and I had no other personal computer.
+The Emacs community helped me with donations and I am back in action.</p>
+
+<p>In this video I provide an overview of what happened and what I am
+currently up to.</p>
+
+<p>Below is the text of my presentation, though note that I did not follow
+it too closely:</p>
+
+<pre><code class="language-org">#+TITLE: The Emacs community bought me a computer
+#+AUTHOR: Protesilaos Stavrou (https://protesilaos.com)
+#+DATE: 2021-08-29
+
+Hello everyone!  My name is Protesilaos, also known as "Prot".
+
+As you can tell from the title of this video, this is a status update on
+my current condition: *the Emacs community bought me a new computer.* I
+both humbled and elated by the fact.
+
+What follows is a summary of events and an overview of my next steps.
+
+* The laptop's battery malfunctioned
+
+On August 5 my laptop's battery stopped receiving power.  It was
+behaving erratically for a couple of days prior, as it would abruptly
+not send power to the computer, shutting down, and then make the special
+sound it does that it was recharging again.  All this while being
+plugged to the wall and with capacity to spare.
+
+On the 5th it stopped recharging and the laptop has not worked since.
+At the time I posted a short announcement on my website: there is a
+dedicated section about "News", which is separate from my other
+writings.  Here it is:
+
+#+begin_quote
+Laptop battery out; will be back ASAP
+
+2021-08-05
+
+My laptop’s battery is no longer recharging. I double-checked: it has
+probably malfunctioned. I need what remains of it to make some final
+backups. I’ll have no regular access to a computer afterwards. Need to
+check for replacements and if they are worth it. Will reply to your
+emails as soon as I can.
+
+https://protesilaos.com/news/2021-08-05-laptop-battery/
+#+end_quote
+
+My only access to a computer was at the one available in my local
+community.  This is a mountainous region.  Not many options.
+
+Anyhow, I was expecting to remain out of action for several weeks due to
+budget constraints.  Though after eleven days since I posted the
+announcement, I noticed many emails from Paypal informing me that I had
+received donations.  Checked my account and there were EUR 430!  That
+was more than I had ever received before.
+
+I could not check all the emails at the time, because I am subscribed to
+several mailing lists and without Emacs+Notmuch it was too difficult to
+find what I needed.  So I did not have a clear picture of what triggered
+those donations.  Nothing like that had never happened before.
+
+On August 16 I posted another announcement informing people that I got
+donations and would be able to buy new equipment (by the way, writing a
+blog post on Gitlab is much worse than doing it inside of Emacs).  I
+explained that it would probably be better to invest in a mini tower
+than pay for exorbitant shipping charges for a battery.
+
+* New desktop computer
+
+Shortly after I posted the second announcement, I contacted a friend who
+knows more about computer hardware than I do.  I basically know nothing.
+He helped me piece together a mini tower.  Some parts are new.  Others
+are second-hand.  I am very happy with the outcome, as this is more
+powerful than the laptop I had before (Emacs launches faster, I can load
+a heavy website with javascript, etc.).
+
+I also got this camera and a small microphone that I have here on my
+side.  Hopefully the video and audio quality are better than before, but
+don't expect anything fancy.
+
+Anyhow, while I was waiting for the computer to be assembled, the
+donations kept flowing in, but I did not know about them at the time.
+When I eventually set up the new machine (on the night of August 26 and
+the morning after) and finally got back to my email, I started reading
+through the notifications from Paypal and the other emails I received.
+
+The sum had tripled at about EUR 1400!  Many donations included a
+message.  Almost all were related to Emacs.  Some people were thanking
+me for my contributions in general.  Others referred to my Modus themes.
+And others still mentioned the videos I do.
+
+I don't know whether I should post the names of the people who
+contributed, as this is private information and I have no permission to
+divulge it.  Safe to say, there are many names on that list that I
+already know.  We have exchanged emails before or collaborated on some
+Emacs-related project.  Also, some of those names are very well known in
+the Emacs community.
+
+*I wish to thank everyone for their support.* I was not expecting it and
+it has definitely made a noticeable improvement in my daily life.
+
+I am still working through my backlog.  You will get a reply in the
+coming days.
+
+* Note on recent code updates and latest philosophy post
+
+I have been busy setting things up.  I already had hand-written notes of
+all sorts that I have already digitised and published.  Bash scripts,
+Elisp snippets, and an 8k word publication on philosophical themes.
+
+Some highlights:
+
++ I am back to using BSPWM (a tiling window manager).  Those of you who
+  may only know me from my Emacs stuff, I used to have my bespoke
+  computing environment, which included BSPWM+Tmux+Vim+CLI.  I still
+  mostly using nothing but Emacs, though it is better to control the
+  other windows with the keyboard.
+
++ I now publish the derived =*.el= file of my dotemacs.  This is for
+  people who do not need to read through a massive document that
+  contains more than 70k words.
+
++ Those are available in my dotfiles' repo.  My dotemacs is also posted
+  in HTML on my website: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/dotemacs (includes
+  link to the dotfiles).
+
++ I am back to maintaining my Git projects.  There has been an update to
+  my Tempus themes, which are not Emacs-related.  Templates for the
+  Alacritty terminal emulator are now available, as well as a dedicated
+  =tempus-themes-alacritty= repo.
+
+  - The shell scripts for maintaining the numerous Tempus themes have
+    also been updated.
+
++ And now some philosophy.  I started writing this before my laptop
+  failed, but I think the topic relates to the help I received from the
+  Emacs community.  I will let you check the actual text on your own.
+  It is written in a dialogue style, based on real experiences.  The
+  title is /Why you are not important/ and relates to egocentrism,
+  escapism, and related concepts.  Instead of my text, let me read you
+  this, which many of you already know about.
+
+#+begin_quote
+Notmuch is not much of an email program.  It doesn't receive messages
+(no POP or IMAP support).  It doesn't send messages (no mail composer,
+no network code at all).  And for what it does do (email search) that
+work is provided by an external library, Xapian.  So if Notmuch provides
+no user interface and Xapian does all the heavy lifting, then what's
+left here?  Not much.
+
+https://notmuchmail.org/
+#+end_quote
+</code></pre>
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