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title: My laptop died
date: 2024-09-08
permalink: daily/2024/09/08/my-laptop-died
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- software-development
- linux
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My laptop died. :(
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Yesterday, my daily driver laptop suddenly died.
The charging lights are on and the keyboard backlights are on, but there's no display on the internal screen or when I plug it into an external monitor.
Today, it's gone into a local computer repair shop so I'm writing this email from a different laptop than normal.
The great thing about using NixOS and Home Manager is that all of my laptop's configuration is saved within [my dotfiles repository][0] - from the operating system and window manager configuration to the programs I have installed and how they are configured.
I was able to get half a laptop (an old one with a broken lid) working with my external monitor and running with an identical configuration very quickly.
I didn't need to wonder what programs I had installed or how I configured them. It was all available in my dotfiles.
And, because I commit early and often, the code I've been working on recently is all in remote Git repositories and using tools like Nix and Docker, I can get them running again quickly too.
[0]: https://github.com/opdavies/dotfiles.nix