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You'll notice that window management is quite different from what you're accustomed to, here's a brief guide:
https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html#ri...
I hope the GRML people are working on a new release, as it's been a year since the last one.
I think this it:
How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-musi...
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/11/03/ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2011/11/28/
Then again, the cost of shipping supplies and relocating people to a southern port would be considerable.
For what it's worth, the website is really slick, too! The slowly rotating disk looks like something from a science-fiction movie display.
A conference room was converted into a kind of incident center complete with floor to ceiling world map to plot the locations of any outages. Someone even brought a satellite TV dish mounted on a tripod in case local terrestrial TV failed.
No lie, in the runup to that night everyone was concerned, but as it wore on, our relief was sweet.
You don't have to have a license to attend, all are welcome. If you think you might be interested in ham radio, there are always technical talks covering various aspects of radio and its intersection with open source, as well as demonstrations of equipment. Someone typically makes a few contacts while parachuting near the venue!
(I expect someone will have an HF Signals sBitx HF (shortwave) transceiver there to show off. It's a mostly open source portable radio designed and built in India around a Raspberry Pi 4 that can communicate via voice, Morse code and various digital modes.)
https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html