I know you asked about thinkpads but I think you should consider a Latitude 7400. The non 2 in 1 model. It’s got 1 m.2 slot, 2 Sodimm slots, and the back panel comes off in one piece and is easy to get at everything. The downside is the keyboard is hard to replace. It’s one of those built in ones.

I run Debian on it and lock the CPU to 2.5Ghz and below and keep cooling pads in it and its passive. never runs the fan. Has amazing battery life and linux support. (shipped with ubuntu as an option). They’re cheap too. The build quality is really good. It has the barrel charging port, usb c/thunderbolt port, hdmi, 2 USB A, headphone jack, micro usb reader, sim card slot, smart card reader for ports. Plus the trackpad actually has buttons which I like. I don’t like the tapping that’s become common now. The webcam has a physical shutter you can slide over it too. Overall a nice little laptop once you tweak it a bit.

You didn’t give enough info for me to know what happened but generally imo Windows is harder than Linux. Full disk encryption really isn’t needed for most people. What you should do is HOME encryption. Or have a 2nd partition on your ssd that you keep sensetive things in and is encrypted and you keep that unmounted when not using it.

On the bright side they were already looking for a new job. Since they definitely don’t have that old one anymore lol.

Debian is honestly goated. Like I love me a nice boring stable distro that just keeps on chugging. I have done such crazy stuff to Debian and it just refuses to care. It’s like a nokia phone that got run over by a car and still works.

One of my favorite passtimes is going on a chatbot and asking it really out of left field questions. “Last night while I was sleeping I was woken up to my neighbor making fried eggs in my kitchen. The eggs were pretty good, but I’m concerned how he got inside. Do you know what seasonings he might have used on the egg? It was green.”

Well I didn’t do it because I thought it would be a popular decision. So I’m not surprised you and many others don’t like that I did. Gosh, maybe if I’d voted for Kid Killer Kamala instead she’d have won and we’d have a girl boss president right now! Too bad I’m never gonna do that. You just need to realize that I do not have the same goals as you. Maybe theres some minor overlap on social issues, but those are hardly the thing I care about most.

I’m butthurt? You seem a lot more upset about this than I am. I literally told you to do whatever you want, but you can’t handle the fact I’m not gonna vote for your democrats lol. I wish I was a foreign asset. Then I wouldn’t have to live in this shit hole of a country. But yes, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot. Good job. You figured it out. Bee-boop. Em-Dash. etc.

So basically you can’t handle the idea that there are people who don’t think voting is going to make a difference? Even when i say to do it if you want to? I’m not telling people not to vote. I’m just saying my opinion on it. And then on the guns thing you say basically exactly what I said verbatim but then act like your version is the more reasonable and mine is somehow “violent” in a way yours isn’t. Like what do you think “protecting yourself” in a worst case scenario would look like? It would look like a civil war. Do you have some fantasy that you’d somehow just be going it alone like rambo and wouldn’t need to pick a side? What exactly do you take issue with in regards to guns that I was saying?

I voted for PSL. I don’t vote for democrats tho.

Ah okay. I was just taking issue with the idea that a few MB don’t matter. Thanks for expanding on your point. I’m very much pro-optimization got no real opinions on systemd tho.

With the elections coming up theres a lot of posts saying vote. I don’t think that will do much but if you want to vote do it. But you damn well better do 1 more thing too. BUY A GUN! The 2nd amendment exists. If you are in the US and you are a leftist I want you to be ARMED! Locked and Loaded! Legally! Go to the range and practice. Go skeet shooting.

Comment unrelated to the post. Just sayin.

Edit: For all the people acting like buying a gun is somehow crazy or whatever: I 100% Guarantee that the neo-nazis have guns. The MAGA people have guns. Do you really like the idea of them having plenty of them and your team not having any?

Okay, I agree 30MB isn’t a big deal, but that’s not really an argument not to optimize. The entire Debian Stable mirror for example has like 70,000 packages in it. Let’s say all of those packages took the position that “A few extra MB doesn’t matter.” If each one had just 1 extra MB that is 70GB of extra bloat. If each one had 2 extra MB that is 140GB of extra bloat. If each one had 30MB of extra bloat that is 2.1TB of extra bloat. Now obviously thats a very unrealistic, and extreme, example, but the point is that with a super complex operating system things add up. We should appreciate the nit picky little dudes who yell over 30MB because they’re probably responsible in part for a good bit of cumulative extra disk space for the rest of us.

All of that stuff. Basically anything someone does with Linux that is cool and they want to show off.

An AI would spend more in compute hacking my bank account then it would get from draining it.

I would bet real money the way you broke Debian testing is that your boot filled up and initramfs didn’t generate correctly, and then your rebooted and it wouldn’t boot. Am I correct?

Ironically security is one of the single most commonly used excuses for companies and governments to violate your privacy. Sorry microsoft, you can’t scan all my files. Womp womp.

It’s perfect for them. They don’t have to do the work of maintaining an OS (Which they suck at) and get to continue monitoring the entire computer using their malwa- I mean security suite. :)

Yeah I wouldn’t leave it up to like individuals. Guilds back in the day had good systems for it. You’d get someone who had been vetted and verified to be competent assigned to you. Usually the apprentices had to “buy in” that doesn’t mean money persay. But labor could be the buy in. If you want to be given some of a skilled mentors time then you’d have to put in labor to prove you were serious about it and earn it.

I wonder how effective a master/apprentice situation could be for this? Like someone gets taken under the wing of a veteran contributor and all their work is vetted and signed off on my that person before being submitted. They get taught how to do things and in return maybe do some of the busywork for the veteran. Because your always going to need new contributors but you need a way to vet them.

I actually spent a good amount of time trying to remove title bars from gnome the other day and on the version im currently on it seems impossible. Unless I want to potentially break a bunch of stuff to do it anyway.