Another #FOSDEM advice: you won't find power outlets at the campus. Arrange so that your devices last through the day without getting plugged in.

@bagder so true. #fosdem

@bagder 😱
So i'll have to listen to the talks? Bullocks!

@mreichelt nah, the rooms are full anyway. Get yourself another drink and chat with people in one of the cafeterias. 😎

@bagder That reminds me: I'll have to get a second power bank for #dokomi in case my bf forgets his and scrounges mine again...

@bagder that's a good reminder to charge up my power bank, thanks!

@bagder lol - I feel this will be a very different conference experience than I'm used to! I never was at FOSDEM, so this will be a first for me.
I'd be happy to chat with you when we meet there!

@bagder oh no. I guess I might have to get a USB-C power bank capable of 20V to charge my thinkpad

@bagder
There is one.

@bagder
or be nice to the people at the stands, maybe they let You use their power in exchange for some stickers 😉

@bagder @mreichelt If you can get into them. Honestly, there have been fosdems I've gone hungry because food was unobtanium.

I won't be going this time, because I'm already to virused-up-cruddy, but my advice would be: * bring food, bring drink, * have pals you want to meet and go into brussels early after you've done the hallway track * don't try to attend any talk or dev room

Oh, and protect your shoes from projectile vomiting when going to Solbosch using public transport.

@bagder what are all the people with ~25 year old thinkpads to do 😱

@mreichelt FOSDEM is truly like nothing else, but it's a great place packed with lovely people. Come find me and we'll chat!

@bagder @mreichelt yeah people traditionally camp the rooms with talks in the main buildings all the time

@bagder @mreichelt Oh, and if you're s a speaker, or even a keynote speaker -- don't bother to prepare.

Everyone in the audience will be busy getting drunk, being drunk, making out, coding while drunk or idly chatting on IRC.

Nobody will pay you any attention.

@bagder @mreichelt I was once invited, in a previous incarnation: https://archive.fosdem.org/2011/interview/boudewijn-rempt.html

@aeva @bagder At least thinkpads can swap batteries 🥳

@aeva @bagder exactly what my t530 was thinking. The battery last about 40 minutes.

@halla @bagder @mreichelt I don't know about cafeterias, but I was really positively surprised how easy it was to get lunch at the campus canteen.