You guys have a monitor?

8 hours? I would kill to get 8 hours battery life.

I always wondered if people still make quirky Lego cities like the old days

Like others said, you can try installing Arch manually (not with the install script). You get the hang of the terminal and you get to see a bit more of how Linux works under the hood. The wiki is your friend, spend some time reading it!

Julia Evans recently did a thing about job control here. Nothing yet on multiplexers though