maybe what makes more sense is stabilising and repairing my current
   devices.
   my olimex teres, raspberry pi, redhat system, or phone. these are all
   having issues themselves.
   notably, it seems quite hard to get an x86 system or vm running to test
   my serialice patch.
   it's also nice to work with something like the arduino, because there
   are so few places it can fail. the task would be to stabilise further
   its use as a programmer.