is it calling me a wanker in spanish?

unfortunately not all thinkpads are made the same. it seems that, for a while now, lenovo takes a bunch of cheaper laptops and slaps the thinkpad label on them

i personally had a better experience with dell’s latitude line, but ymmv

Whatever price you find for a refurbished M2, take that money and go find a laptop known to be well supported on Linux, it’ll just be a better experience and you’ll probably get more for your money.

not an apple user, but apple is well known for their build quality. what other laptop manufacturer is on par with apple’s build quality?

how long until linus intervenes and tells rust haters to shut the fuck up?

to play with, sure. but in the case of a backup machine, you want something reliable, rock-solid, low maintenance and easy to use, which is why I recommended debian

I don’t think there’s any useful way to put it to regular use for yourself, but you could:

• install debian on it and keep it around in case of an emergency. turn it on once in a while to keep it updated (doesn’t need to be that often, it’s debian)
• use it on the go (no worries about it getting stolen)*
• use it a place where you wouldn’t use your main laptop as to not risk damange (camping, hiking, on a trip, etc)*
• install a friendlier linux distro and give it away to someone who doesn’t have a computer (a 10yo cousin maybe)
• give it away to someone who has a computer, but doesn’t have a second one and might be happy to get one to play with

*though i imagine the battery is not in good shape given your “beaten up” description

https://wayland.social/

this is likely to keep as much people on windows as possible in an effort prevent people from being able to disable (or not have at all) things like location tracking, telemetry, etc. the us govt is probably going to crack down hard on “terrorist” threats (aka socialists, palestine supporters, and even anyone moderately critical of us imperialism), so they’re gonna need all the information they can gather about people’s online activities

maybe it’s the same reason some banks don’t work on rooted android phones: they want to prevent you to control how your system works bc they count on being able to extract as much information as possible from your computer usage without your consent

termux

it is absolutely recommended to keep any system that has access to the internet up to date. i don’t know why people keep saying it isn’t

unless i’m missing something, any distro will do. i’d personally go with debian, but that’s my choice. opensuse is also an excellent choice if you want easy to use config tools

If DOS is like Windows the system clock ticks local time, but usually Linux likes UTC time

that’s entirely configurable

it’s just an os, you’re not better just bc you memorized a bunch of terminal commands and willingly subjected yourself to a poorer user experience

if you don’t give a fuck about user freedom and just want to use a unix os, then fuck off to any bsd out there and stfu

yes and that sucked. i’m glad we’re not like that anymore

what is it with linux nerds not understanding that you can have configurability without it being mandatory? i’m not saying the terminal shouldn’t exist, just that i shouldn’t have to use it

every time you need to open a terminal for some basic system operation is a defeat for the system

(i get that this is not a very common operation, but still)

it’s not just that this is not for me. i genuinely don’t see the point of a terminal-only editor (even vim has a gui version) without any extensibility. the reason vim and emacs are still being used despite being old and full of cruft is that their extensibility makes them very adaptable. treesitter et al seem enough now, but what about ten years from now?

it’s also weird their motivation for being terminal-only is better performance, as if guis are this super resource intensive thing and not something that’s been mainstream for at least 30 years

for the terminal

no thank you

there is currently no plugin system available

lmao

maybe it has to do with the lack of parens in the method calls and the chaining of method calls. this would be the ruby equivalent of the script:

puts 'Hello, World!'
# -> Hello, World!

def square(n) n*n end

[2, 4, 6, 8].map(&:square)
# -> [4, 16, 36, 64]

# another option
[2, 4, 6, 8].map{|n| n*n}

print 'Hello, World!'
# -> Hello, World!

square = |n| n * n
'8 squared is {square 8}'
# -> 8 squared is 64

(2, 4, 6, 8)
  .each square
  .to_list()
# -> [4, 16, 36, 64]

it might be just me, but, from the code snippet, it feels a lot like ruby