And Google is definitely going to use it to do more things than the ones you want it for.

I had a ThinkPad X200 (IIRC) that I could literally stand on. Still working (with limitations). I wish things could last that much nowadays.

If you need sturdy, nothing like a refurbished old Thinkpad, but probably the expertise needed is too much for me.

Years. I don’t know how many, but less than 4 or 5, not super bad, but annoying enough specially in the corners. Also by the 5th year the rubber “feet” had started to crumble.

I went with Laptopwithlinux for my last one, I don’t remember the reason (probably the shipping too). I’m quite happy, don’t recall having to do any workarounds to get my distro running.

I’ve also had Slimbook and Tuxedo (when I was living in the EU) and my takeaway is that no laptop is perfect. The Slimbook was great because of the aluminium case, like dialectalraveling says, but the monitor’s light leakage was a bit too much for my taste (same goes for LWL). Tuxedo was great because I have never found such a great power/weight balance, but the case (magnesium I think) took very few years to start chipping. LWL feels like a reasonably priced in-between (but I miss the others’ FlexiCharge, now I need to unplug the charger manually).

You could also try and find the corresponding white label model (TongFang, Clevo…), maybe some Australian company sells them without having to go through customs. Unfortunately I can’t recommend Metabox though: at work I have one, the specs are good but the trackpad and the most used letters on the keyboard started “peeling”(?) after very little time of use (I swear I don’t eat at my desk).

One of my favourite principles is Chesterton’s fence.

GuixSD is another distro that allows you to keep a reproducible config file from which reinstall everything from base to apps to dotfiles.

The con is that it can feel a bit alien compared to other distros.

There are communities on Lemmy about it:

• !guix@lemmy.ml
• !guix@infosec.pub
• !guix@lemmy.world

“Nonce” is an insult in the UK.

Found an old fluff piece about Damien Costas by MensHealth and it’s superfunny to read it from the future. So much leadership and innovation and smoke.

Thanks!

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