Buy a different thinkpad (an older gen T/L/E 14) (but check the upgradability), there is too much demand for it for it to be normally priced.

I wanted one in ~2023 and couldn’t find one under 300€, I then bought a Dell Latitude 5290 with the same CPU (i5-8350u) as the T480. The Latitude is working well enough, Dells (Latitudes and Precisions) are also a great thinkpad alternative - keep in mind they don’t have a trackpoint (since 2018).

ThinkPad - of course (especially T and P series).

Yep, he’ll probably sell it in a laptop I put it in. I’m kinda skeptical about an ONDA laptop with a 4-core Celeron selling. Might as well keep it, give it away or something.

Yes, I have to complain about this laptop. It’s worth less than just the SSD.

Should have thought of that before reinstalling the OS. Thanks, will remember for later.

Cool, thanks for the info. Will remember that.

Cool while others informed me I don’t have to do it, I will remember for future uses.

Wait, HDDs retain data after deletion? I thought only SSDs did that.

Yes.

I just got my bill for a school (college) year in Slovenia. It’s literally just an expensive library bill and an administrative fee (35€).

Edit: It’s still a capitalist borderline-genocidal dystopia, but we can at least afford shit to have a normal life. “Liberalism” is still better than actual concentration camps.

The tech is good. But the pushing of encryption in email services disables the use of other mail clients on free accounts (where the bridge doesn’t work), while the encryption is useless when communicating with any other mail service (with email you mostly communicate with corpos anyway). It just seems like it’s a cash grab, but it might be useful for activist groups.

I’m still looking for a free, private (at least as much as it can be) and open email service which is way harder than I expected.

I have a protonmail ACC (not using it as I need a powerful mail client, Infomaniak (very capitalist lately), which I also don’t use much.

Wow “the <insert distro here> users are too stupid to deserve my package”. What a dick take.

Wow, you could say he’s a capitalist bootlicker, who never actually criticizes the free products he gets from companies. Or a populist who ignores the actual important information about things he reviews and focuses on the materials and how they make him feel (like almost all reviewers).

But the “Oh no, he is able to drive and occasionally speeds like everyone else.” isn’t really a problem.

But he is an idiot, who posted it on the internet. That’s just stupid.

Most people aren’t really into ideology (or Wikipedia for that matter). They just figure out the system is the problem. The only people being an actual part of the revolution would ve intellectuals, easy to repress. That would make the revolution from an actual revolution to the people enrolling a Nazi into power and doing nothing else.

Well yes, technically that would just be a repressed revolution. Aparently I just parroted the OP’s point and haven’t added anything that important. Shit.

But the ruling class doesn’t have to do an organized attempt of repression, they can just be done by people themselves.

Yes, but if the revolution happens, they will definitely make it fascist. That’s what I was trying to say (but I did it somewhat shitily). We really need to be careful to protect ourselves and others in the event of revolution (both from other dangerous people and from fascist ideology).

Well, just look at the majority of people and their ideology. The next revolution, wherever it happens is going to be fascist. The only thing we could do is propaganda (and even that is really hard to do well).

Well, just don’t use AUR for everything. They don’t even recommend helpers. It’s ment to be tedious, to discourage usage for non-necesarry bullshit.

That sounds like a great way to permanently lock yourself out.

Intel’s new core ultras are aparently extremely power efficient.

Dell is good for Linux (especially Latitudes and Precision models). They’re also relatively reliable and build quality is great (if you ignore the stupid XPS-s).

For laptops, you have https://linux-hardware.org/. It’s also better to avoid MTK network cards(many are still fine). Otherwise, I think linux support is good for mostly all hardware.

Lenovo’s ThinkPads are still as good as any other models.

Mostly DDG when I can. It’s terrible with Slovene searches, so I occasionally still have to use google.

Also, our local najdi.si is just stupid.