I’m using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7 as my OpenBSD laptop. This laptop has a 256GB NVMe drive, and today I got curious about the health of it. It’s not a young machine, and on top of that, I bought it used, so I have no idea how it was treated in its previous life. If the drive is getting bad, I want to know about it sooner, rather than later.

Recently I had to write a paper with scientific vibes. Of course, the first tool that comes to mind for writing papers is LaTeX. I used quite a bit of LaTeX in the distant past, but the problem is I forgot everything about it! I could probably re-learn it easily, but I decided to search for alternatives first. The first tool that sprang up was Typst with over 40000 Github stars!