I wonder what the apologists from .ml have to say…

My understanding is that it boots faster. That’s a nice thing to have on a container that spins up on demand.

That’s news to me - and a bit of a dick move.

New Thinkpads are still great Linux laptops, so there’s a steady stream of newer 2nd hand models coming on the market.

That’s all well and good, but many of these Windows machines were headless or used by extremely non-technical people - think tills at your supermarket or airport check-in desks. Worse, some of these installations were running in the cloud, so console access would have been tricky.

I dunno, having the same music taste seems like a good starting point at least.

Simple: I fucking hate driving. I hate the smell, I hate the noise, and I hate the stress. Thr environmental impact isnt exactly a plus point either. You could say that I’m lucky to live in a place with good public transport, but I actively sought out a place with public transport because I didn’t want to rely on a car.

Final nail on the coffin: I developed Menieres disease, so I am prone to intense vertigo attacks at short notice - I couldn’t get a license even if I wanted one.

Downloading music… I was discovering so many cool bands by downloading shitty quality mp3s!

This is fucking retarded, of all the people to get free meals for life, they choose someone who is so rich it wouldn’t surprise me if he could buy the entire chain of restaurants.

So… let’s start uploading lots of gay/trans porn and swe how long it takes before the policy changes!

Nope, porn sport and anime bore me to tears… all blocked, plus a bunch of hyper-regional communities (sorry, Seattle, I’m in Europe, so the internal affairs of your city have little interest to me). I also had to block c/India because it kept getting pushed into my /all list.

I’m quite impressed she’s still able to travel at 101. My mum’s in her mid eighties and really struggles now.

To be fair, you are doing something wrong if you’re app segfaults no matter what anguage you wrote it in…

I think we’re mixing up the consumer grade Lenovo laptops (cheap crap) with Lenovo Thinkpads (business grade and built like a tank). We use a lot of Thinkpads and they’re good - nice even, and they survive a lot of abuse.

Or they are just LEO satellites that have reached their natural end of life.

Opensuse tumbleweed on a lenovo X1 gen 7. Software wise - KDE desktop and VS Code, Dbeaver, Kate and Firefox. Oh, and the usual command line tools - git, npm, terraform… This is a work laptop, but I find tumbleweed to be extremely stable, considering it’s a rolling release. If it does go south, there is a fantastic snapper support to roll back to the previous state.

Trust me, nobody gives a flying fuck what you use.

This sounds incredibly risky. Proceed with caution!

It’s fine, I bought an XPS 13 years ago with Ubuntu and immediately put OpenSuSE on it. At least I’m not paying Microsoft. I still have that laptop, and it’s great. I think Lenovo deserves an honourable mention here, too - we buy T and X series laptops at work with Ubuntu and they work great too.

And yet this, too, is driven by terrible political decisions that practically force Americans to drive even the shortest distances. As a European, your cities and towns are extremely aggressive towards pedestrians and cyclists.