Not sure I was following the rules, tbph. Box of laptops and I grabbed some promising looking ones.

I got two laptops from local electronics recycling this past month. One of them is 2020 spec and just needed a charger and some dents smoothed out. Can’t beat rescuing something that’s going in the trash, sustainability wise. If you’re going on the actual used market, Thinkpad like everyone else said.

“No expectation of privacy in public” is a legal doctrine. I do have an expectation of privacy in public. Stop filming me and shit, mind your own damn business.

The vibes are impeccable though.

Can’t imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. “Israel” gov doesn’t need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.

I’ve done this. One of my favorites was fixing a project where a guy had managed to implement two separate backends without realizing it.

Man, Corel Linux looks like a vibe. The box looks familiar but don’t think I ever used it.

I’ve gotten pretty far in using it, great tool with plugin integrations.

I don’t think this is a well-defined term, so not much point in arguing about its definition.

Cause there’s like six other distros based on it. The point is that a package manager especially is a huge part of what differentiates the general experience of using a distro, and how a derivative distro works. And sure, lots of other details. Something like Manjaro, Artix etc. is basically cut from Arch as a template, often incorporating upstream changes or packages, with downstream changes based on differences of opinion.

“Conveniently?” I’m not making a case against Arch. I’m literally using an Arch derivative. Just not trying to sit here listing every single customization they ever made. Chill the fuck out.

I’ll tell you, nothing bricks as hard or as irreparably as Windows. I have never had to actually reinstall Linux due to some problem (though it’s a good practice security-wise).

A package manager + some packages in the base system maybe, is basically a distro template. And maybe some kernel tweaks, or a built-in DE/WM. Or opinionated init system maybe.

Doesn’t that work with just a big USB stick? I’ve definitely plopped a Linux HD in a new computer and had it work with almost no changes (fstab and maybe adding graphics card support).

alias l="ls", I’m immune to this problem

Some Elgato hardware is supported by OBS, FYI. IIRC the HD60+ or S+ or something.

Between computer and device running Android.

Adb is just an interface between computer and phone, the packages it lists may not be every system component, you can add anything in at kernel level, or also just not list it in that interface.

IIRC somebody said the eMac computers like this were actually really good for their age. Either the iMac shaped ones like that, or the ones with the half-sphere foot for a base.

Not if they’re baked into the system. Although that may get into GPL violations, I forget.