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).

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

I like Unexpected from the F-Droid store but takes a little bit to get used to it.

That’s too advanced for me I guess but maybe in a future.

Oh I thought it was.

ETA: that includes me typing the LUKS and account password.

I’m switching to GuixSD. Fortunately I have an old laptop and can build up my system there until I feel confident enough to do the real switch.

Pros I have encountered so far: booting in 20 seconds. Nice, although small, community. Scheme is cool. When the time comes, I will just need to copy two text files (and my dotfiles) to the main laptop, and my system will be (theoretically) the same, and it will be (theoretically) unfuckable.

Cons I have encountered so far: some kinks that were quick to research and fix while on an Arch-based distro, now are a bit more of a pain (but most of them in the fun way at least). For now I have given up trying to make the Thunar archive plugin work and switched to PCmanFM. Also I had to install Logseq as a flatpak. I have started very recently and I have not installed much yet so no idea about the impact on gaming.

ETA: there’s !guix@lemmy.ml and !guix@infosec.pub on Lemmy.

What do you think?

Don’t adapt your safer sex practices to what other people see okay or not. If your risk assessment says dental dam, dental dam it is. Walk away from any hook up that expects you to lower the bar of what you deem safe.

Thanks for sharing.

To me it reminds me of the Auryn.

AerynOS

I mean… Yeah, woah. Imagine an AI CEO taking decisions while being even more immune to accountability than a human CEO.

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