My laptop broke recently. It’s a pain for several reasons. Joseph lent me a laptop which has an excellent collection of stickers on it. It is, furthermore, a high specification laptop with a fast processor and plenty of RAM. It runs GNOME. However, it does not have a working battery: the battery does not store power. Prior to this, I was using another laptop which was made in 2007. It also hasn’t got any battery. I would like to try and find an analogy between this trio of computers and SI#23. To some extent because working with a collection of Linux machines has shaped my experience of the trimester technologically.

The Hard drive as seam/quilt

Over the past month I have written documents on several different computers, all of which are Linux systems running Debian or Debian derivatives. I need to find a way to consolidate my workflow because my files are all over the place. I have various pieces of writing from different weeks on different machines. The hard drive is a place where quilt and seam can exchange places. Insofar that the hard drive can contain backups from multiple computers, it resembles a quilt: a patchwork of computers or, perhaps more accurately, files. On the other hand, it is a seam because, insofar that each computer is considered a patch, the hard drive goes between them. Hard drives, in all probability, can be exploited in ways which reflect their being both potentially quilt and seam.