This seems ill advised. Why is this a thing? What does this do that other distros don’t?

I tried umbrel a while back and it was alright. Some stuff just didn’t work for me all together but it was quite a few years ago that I tried it.

IMO in a raid config, used drives are fine, especially if you have backups.

I bought a few before the prices were crazy and they havnt been on for a while but never had issues with them. Funny enough, I had more issues with the used motherboard than I did with those drives lol.

Preaching to the choir man. I ditched Windows and am better for it. No excuse for microslop to be this bad.

I think a lot of the issues people experience on windows can be mitigated by disabling certain things or as you said “neutering” it. Back when I used windows 10 as my main OS, I did a lot of modification to make it better and it was alright, but windows 11 has also experienced a lot more bugs and criticism just being generally worse. Worse resource management, less user freedom, more tracking, more ai, newer CPU requirements, and that’s all just off the top of my head.

Still a cool project though, ive never heard of it so thanks for sharing

Just wanted to chime in an say I appreciate your more balanced and or nuanced take on this topic.

I see a lot of hate for AI and for good reason, but it does have its use cases.

Unfortunately, like NFTs when they became popular for scams or whatever the fuck people started doing with them, it quickly became used for making garbage, scamming, and being shoved into everything companies thought it could be.

And the scale at which AI is harming our planet is too great a cost for what it does right now or even if it was amazing at what it did. Theres a lot of issues with it.

There are air mice that you can buy with keyboards on it or a keyboard trackpad combo.

I use this one with my htpc: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XHF7DNQ

Hell even if you want some kind of cable service, IP TV exists.

IMO no real reason to use android TV or a smart TV right now.

Me personally, I just use a Linux distro (ive used Ubuntu and popos, both have been fine) and use whatever flavor of streaming service I can access. Sometimes you’re hit with lower resolution but I’d rather that than get spied on and be fed ads by my hardware.

Ive also gone back to physical media and use a DVD player. I’m just buying series I like one by one.

This video used a combination of physical media and streaming services. They relied on waydroid and with some workarounds, it worked well for them:

https://youtu.be/nROKp0BpFek?is=GFhDrr82dCCFGcVT

As someone who is trying mint with Cinnamon, agreed. KDE just feels and looks better IMO.

Seems like a nuanced and balanced take. AI can help or hurt, makes sense to me that they dont really endorse or prohibit it right now.

Funny, I just posted about buying a t480. I wont lie and say its the latest and greatest, but its a good machine. My main reason was the Linux support, but as others mentioned, Linux runs on just about anything.

I think it would depend on the kind of software you’re developing. If you’re doing web development, I’d say you’re good, game Dev, maybe not. There are also different models with diffrent specs. Some come with 8 gigs or sometimes more, some have a TN panel or an IPS, i7 vs i5 so just be on the lookout for what specs you want/need.

I made sure to get the IPS model so no TN for me. And yea so far, seems to work well.

I’m not a fan of immutable distros tbh. I know they are the most “ease of use” you can get but at the same time, if I really want to change something, I can.

And IMO, I like Ubuntu. Wide compatibility and is stable. Thats what I like. I could take or leave Canonical though.

Nah I’m just dumb lol. Idk why my brain didn’t clock that. Thank you for explaining

This one does. I think certain IPS models got the feature. Tbh, not really much of a touchscreen guy for laptops but I wont say no

Great minds think alike haha. Good for you brother. Hope it works well for you.

Ah OK that makes more sense.

I followed this guide, worked right out of the box:

https://github.com/SeniorMatt/How-to-enable-fingerprint-in-Linux-Mint-for-T480