really weird, my touchscreen laptop worked fine

what’s the problem? if you want bigger buttons and stuff you could try gnome?

the chinese aren’t worse engineers than americans, they’re just usually more incentivised to reduce cost than increase quality

anyway I think the thinkpad design team is still in japan

they’re built way better than their t14/p14s counterparts though, iirc they use the magic alloy for the chassis instead of plastic

i bet the “foundational changes” are all vibecoded

the windows file explorer and terminal have horrible performance, it’s one of the reasons I’ll never switch back

holy shit that’s actually competent hardware, and you can get them for way cheaper than an equivalent pc

i think I might have to start looking for one

i quite like the cinnamon theme in mint, I think it looks really nice, especially with a vibrant wallpaper. In my opinion it’s modern but simple and relaxing to look at

bro 3 hours wtf

for now

no oem is gonna be able to earn the trust framework has tbh

that’s an incredibly slow cpu (I’ve literally never heard of a 600MHz cpu in anything this century).

You’re free to try, but I wouldn’t expect it to run any web browser (including obsidian, because that’s electron). I’d recommend using it to experiment with extremely lightweight software like Alpine Linux with some lightweight WM

it gets very technical very quickly on Linux, but have a read here: https://linrunner.de/tlp/introduction.html

what terminal emulator are you using?

you can buy used hard drives for pretty reasonable amounts of money

very nice!

Sounds stressful asf, you should try take a break and relax (e.g. turn off all computers in the house for a few days). The rushed decisions you make now might not be the best

In terms of suggestions, I’d recommend:

• Isolating untrustworthy network devices (e.g. web3 shit and your roommate’s pc) in VLANs
• Running untrustworthy code in containers or vms
• Getting a proper router (openwrt one maybe?) and managing it yourself, don’t let your roommate touch it
• Setting up firewalls on your pc (restrict ports to the ones you actually need)

This would involve learning more about networking, Wikipedia and the arch wiki has pretty good information on it.

I think for cjk typing you can use fcitx5 with the input method engine corresponding to your language. have a look here

EDUT: actually the arch wiki has a good writeup on this

still uses glibc right? I think the big thing about alpine is that it uses musl as its libc

it is what it is. I’ve personally just decided that performance is worth sacrificing for a better OS, but it’s understandable if that’s not worth it for you