Recently upgraded a laptop that had been on the shelf for 5 years up to latest version. Flawless one-step upgrade! nixos. Things never get in a tangle where installing and uninstalling packages leaves random artifacts behind. If you saved it to version control, you can return to a past system configuration and the only thing different is your home directory data.

And yes, if you have a home partition and root partition, that’s exactly what you can do. That’s the beauty of that approach. But back it up!

then someone comes along with a bread making robot. so convenient! unfortunately the documentation is on a 300 foot long paper scroll.

Not enough to actually do anything about it of course. Bless those furrowed brows of concern!

I never saw what was so hard about arch. But not doing anything weird so maybe I missed all the bad stuff? Wiki is nice.

Nixos, now there’s a distro for beginners, lol.

there’s nlnet.nl, but I think you have to apply for a grant.

Might be nice to have a foundation that would seek out key open source maintainers and direct funds to them, without them needing to self promote. The nebraska initiative?

Haha I don’t actually have any to cancel.

I want to cancel my american owned subscriptions and I’m a american

What about a lenovo yoga? Reportly good with linux.

I just got a T480 thinkpad from craigslist for 120$. Frickin stellar machine for the money. Its not the fastest, but fine for light dev. Or will be once I put 32G of ram in it. With 16 I sometimes experience slowdowns due to swap. Luckily memory isn’t soldered in on this model.

No touchscreen though, and I wouldn’t get one even if it was available. Paid extra for that in my old precision 5520, and almost never used it. If it doesn’t fold completely then its not useful IMO.

Speaking of which, my dell precision 5520 was a good machine, but had chassis problems. Hinge fell apart after screws fell out, and as a result the power connector broke, as did a replacement power connector. Dell battery swelled up making the touchpad unusable, so did a replacement dell battery. No-name lower capacity battery ok. Keyboard wore out and keys cracked, replaced but now becoming unreliable again. Screen and motherboard are still good, but unfortunately its become unusable. Some of these problems are to be expected in a 7 year old heavily used laptop, but I haven’t seen this same degree of decay in thinkpads.

What my comment is replying to:

I am asking about the context that people use the term “far right” as a collective insult.

far right is nazis pal

ok there was that time I left a comment on a librewolf issue

Got one of those and not even sure I have a codeberg account.