Decommissioned USFF business PCs if you want something that can handle a lot and a bit larger is OK.

In that size I’d say OrangePi or Radxa, but depends in your use case for which.

Purely from a manufacturer perspective, I would go Lenovo. Ive had more problems with Dell hardware than with Lenovo hardware.

In terms of what can run, both are capable. I’d lean towards more ram in general, and the 4 laptops I have are lenovo workhorses, the newest of which is ~5yrs old, the oldest ~10yrs old, all happily chugging along just fine.

So I’d vote Lenovo.

The root cause on both of those is just capitalism. If it wasn’t LLMs it would be something else.

So I blame capitalism, not an advanced predictive text engine.

I’m just going to use a flip phone that can hotspot.

Bigscreen only just came back around, I wouldn’t go too heavy there yet (and I’m testing it out already myself)

Get flex launcher instead. Simple config, does the job.

In terms of specs, there is a lot in your list that can vary, and make those specs jump. Where to start, IMO, would be a 7th gen Intel. If an 11th gen is an option, there and up transcoded av1.

For storage you’re going to have to do the math yourself in terms of what you’ll have. I have 40tb of media. I used to have a 1tb drive for everything. Storage is how much you want to allocate, nothing more or less.

Ram is similar. Find the worst case game, most overloaded with plugins Minecraft server or whatever, and start there on memory use. JF won’t take much, your game choice might.

On some things.

On others he couldn’t be more wrong.

Shitty hard right rich douche put together dotfiles for arch, called it a distro, and was given lots of money from 1password.

DHH being a hard right rich douche is not news, but 1password giving $300k to aforementioned hard right asswipe is recent news.

Thats a reasonable summary IMO.

They also want you off the sidewalk, away from everything, unable to see what they are doing, so on.

I’d bet they know what meta glasses look like too.

Edit: Mobile keyboard typos.

I kinda feel like thats the point behind putting this in the news tbh.

You can buy a cheap bodycam for under $100. A mid range option with UHD res and a wider angle lens is like $100-$250.

The police stuff (like Motorola) is around $400-$700.

All of these options are cheaper than Meta’s glasses and don’t come with the explicit purpose of invading privacy for the benefit of Meta.

Well you can build models yourself, but definitely not the ones they are using. Those you can modify, but thats about it, as you said.

Its already pretty dark and just getting worse…

My workstations are Debian, my laptops are a mix of Debian and Arch, same with test hardware.

They all look the same - KDE as my desktop environment, no generic software added at install, just adding what I want. If you were to use any one of them purely from the GUI (KDE), I doubt you’d know which was which without checking version info.

Linux is a kernel. A desktop environment is the GUI. The distro is packaging.

The difference between distributions is predominantly what is packaged up, the tool used to install/update, and an overarching philosophy on those tools.

Debian is about being stable. This means more dated packages, but running into issues from an update is (mostly) not even a question when running the stable branch. Amazing for workstations and older hardware IMO.

Arch updates constantly. Updates can introduce breaking changes, even minor ones, which can interrupt workflow. It also means the latest and greatest features are right there and ready quickly. I like arch for testing and making use of recent hardware that may not have support elsewhere yet.

You could also build entirely from source, use a downstream from Debian like Mint (Debian Edition) or Kubuntu, or downstream of Arch like SteamOS or EndeavourOS. Downstream distributions add more opinion under a more particular approach to their upstream counterparts. For some its to make the system easier to install (EndeavourOS vs Arch), add more recent features (Kubuntu vs Debian), or to make something incredibly specialized (SteamOS, formerly based on Debian and now based in Arch, highly focused on gaming).

The only thing thats “pure” Linux is the kernel. Everything else comes down to purpose and preference.

Its not even a distro. Its arch with dotfiles. Literally.

No repos, no custom packages, etc. Just arch with sloppy dotfiles.

Ah! Another round of “drama!”.

And the fun with neovim over the past day. I wonder if they use XLibre or Omarchy lol

And then they donate to… a conference dedicated to an obsolete web application framework?

Its just so blatant. And more money than the open source summit got! TWELVE TIMES WHAT THEY GAVE TO KDE AKADEMY!

Its gross. Fuck framework.

It sucks because what Framework is trying to achieve is really cool.

It unfortunately makes the goals appear as nothing more than marketing to me now. If they actually wanted to achieve those goals, in no way would their donations be so out of balance.

It depends.

Burlesque shows are not automatically 18+. There are all ages shows, 16+ shows, 18+ shows, and even 21+ shows (usually driven by the venue serving alcohol).

Obviously the content can be a factor, and some will have an age recommendation due to language.

He associated with Defend the Atlanta Forest, which due to being against Cop City, has been flagged as a terrorist organization by the fascists in charge.

There is literally no other reason to be found.

His lawyers have already found (through internal CBP emails) that they flagged him for suspected terrorism because he was associated with Defend the Atlanta Forest.

They internally categorized the group as anti-government, anti-authority, and a violent extremist group.

He protested against Cop City and associated with a non-violent, peaceful org that also protested against Cop City. Thats it.

A bunch of messy dotfiles pretending to be a distro.

Its arch with his bullshit on top. No compiled packages, no independent repos, no custom core.

Feel free to search for “Omarchy is not a distro” to get a bunch of links as to why its crap, aside from DHH being behind it.

They just sponsored his events more than any other event (including in combination of all the major ones), as well as constant social media posts by comparison to anything else.

I put their response squarely in “marketing bullshit to avoid responsibility” territory.

I, too, will no longer look at framework.