And Libreoffice is great. I got through grad school using it. I had to look up a lot of the button locations and formulas but not having Onedrive hork up everything made it all worth it.

Connect has been awesome on Android

Yeah I was talking about the old E7440s for instance. Really solid old machines, and you can still play old games. Minecraft even works at lower settings.

If you aren’t running anything more than Minecraft for games you can get old Dell Latitudes for next to nothing. The downfall is that SSDs are $$$ now.

Errr…OpenSuSE always did this i guess because I’ve never been punted back to a login if Firefox (or anything really) crashed.

Get a library card!!!

If you want to branch out but keep the coffee, the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. There are coffee jokes all through it. Also pretty much the best novels ever.

I’ve got an Acer Aspire One that is slow but i Iove the form factor. It is really good for email and document tasks, just really light and comfortable and the battery lasts ages. Gonna be sad when 32bit ends

Hollow Knight is an amazing game and I can’t spend the time on it I need to get good. It is sad

Subnautica! Holy cow that game is absorbing

For development? I’ve been using old Dell Latitudes. They are easier to work on than HPs, generally sturdy, and Debian runs great on them. You can get a used E7440 for next to nothing, and old RAM is still cheap.

I don’t know what this one has but Mint runs OK on it.

I’ve got a Acer Aspire One with an Atom in it that I still use. The form factor is awesome, I wish it was 64 bit and 4 gig though. Just use it for emergency firewall management as I don’t think it is getting updates.

And by outdated, like 2015. Old E7440s or even older work great with added memory. New battery and you have a nice laptop out of the e waste pile. The only weak spot are drives, SSDs are expensive so to stay cheap you might have to use old spinny in there.

I just found that notepadqq is no longer maintained. :(

Yeah OpenSuSE should just be a tumbleweed picture. Aren’t we all tumbleweeds at heart?

No lie, they’re awesome. I’ve got two R720s, and they really aren’t bad. I leave one off. The other runs 4-5 VMs and doesn’t spin loud at all. Lack rack, surplus drives, a refurbed UPS and it just goes.

Debian for daily driver laptops, mint for your mom’s daily driver laptop, OpenSuSE for desktop gaming, BSD for the servers, and life is good. Real good.

(This is bait, but only a little. :D)

Republica’s cover of Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric

Which also Dead Weather did I think

Samez, just random stuff from Usenet was how I discovered things like Global Communication (which I then bought)