Vacation Linux, Part 3.

The first few days of using Linux on vacation was a struggle. My Debian 13 based computer did not want to stay on the WiFi and was dropping every 120 seconds or so. It turns out the connection was not gracefully handling the varying signal strength fluctuations and subsequent jumping from node to node. I was not in the mood to deal with the issue, but I did because I only brought my Linux laptop and my phone. I had no backup. That was on purpose, because while technology was not the focus of this trip by any means, I wanted to see if I could travel across the country and rely solely on my Linux machine to stay connected with the world. It turns out I can. I spent about an hour fiddling around with the WiFi connection, and ended up deleting the established connection and reconnecting, which seemed to jog everything into place. For the technically inclined, I’m running Debian 13 Trixie with SwayWM, using justaguylinux’s setup scripts as my starting point and then modifying it to my…