Oh ye Dell, become Chimera

(idk what that title is sorry) Recently I mentioned that I found an old laptop I found in my storage shelves and decided to do something with it. Initially the plan was OpenBSD but since I wanted to maybe put some games (Factorio) on it and have a working WM (this laptop has a Nvidia GPU), I decided to stay in Linux land. But this gave me an excuse: I could finally try out Chimera Linux. I've had my eye on this since the maintainer made a very clear anti-LLM statement (you know I'm a sucker for good ethics). It also has a whole bunch of other interesting features: FreeBSD-like userland dinit instead of systemd apk as the package manager musl instead of glibc doas instead of sudo TBF these stickers are a lot of the reason why I resurrected this However, this laptop had a dead battery and a known overheating problem. Resolving these was surprisingly easy: iFixIt had a compatible battery in stock (70eu ouchie) and new thermal paste and thermal tape was about 15eu. There's a bunch of…