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Dennis Felsing

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We live in Heidelberg, Germany. About once a year we travel to my wife’s hometown of Taiyuan, the capital of the Shanxi province in China, to visit my parents-in-law. Our most recent visit was in spring of this year, for two months. In this post I’ll talk about my experiences of regularly staying in Taiyuan since 2019.

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Linux Desktop Setup

My software setup has been surprisingly constant over the last decade, after a few years of experimentation since I initially switched to Linux in 2006. It might be interesting to look back in another 10 years and see what changed. A quick overview of what’s running as I’m writing this post:

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macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux

About 3 years ago I wrote about my Linux Desktop Setup and having used pretty much the same software setup for 10-15 years. My setup used to be heavily keyboard based. Now for work I am for the first time using a macOS-based Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro CPU. I spent the last 3 weeks using it as a daily driver, tweaking…