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by nvy 1019 days ago
one time I was in Kyrgyzstan staring down a band of armed marauders with AKs, me holding nothing but my pre-Lenovo Thinkpad. The battery had long since died (it only lasts about 38 minutes) and of course the WiFi doesn't work due to proprietary drivers but I was able to plug in the six-pound AC adapter to the back of a Unimog and after waiting for the 10 minute boot process to complete I quickly typed "C-c b" which is my personal keybind for blimpy. The marauders were so impressed that they gave me a camel and sent me on my way.

So I guess you could say that blimpy saves lives.

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I’ve never seen a Unimog reference in the wild before!

What an amazing machine.

Maybe it's not very lightweight but pretty customizable, just like Emacs.