I’ve got mx on an intel compute stick - its pretty great, especially on older hardware.

T480, so not quite as well aged as the x201.

Pretty much everything I have is somewhere between 6 and 15 years old. My wife’s laptop is an x1 yoga gen 2 (2016), my TV’s “streaming box” is an m910q, my servers are a random mix of tmm’s with the newest being p330s and the oldest is a dell from 2013ish. I just cobbled a frankenstein together with parts from 2008 and up, which went to my BIL because he needed a PC and I needed less parts in my office.

Off lease business stuff is an absolute favorite of mine to pick up.

Rocketstor, but I think thats only just below $1k.

I enjoy the language despite butchering it every time, and I especially enjoy the French countryside. Pretty damn forgiving of a terrible accent, and with a smile.

Its Parisians that usually piss me off.

Full caveat - not personally into immutable, 90% of the time I’m in Debian or a derivative. 9% arch or derivative. 1% work requirements made me have to use something else.

So I’m less making a rec on method and more commenting on this:

I’ve read that containers are preferred for development, but they aren’t persistent

They absolutely can be, thats the point of mounting volumes. I don’t want to do the same thing more than once, so whether I’m playing with something stupid at home or I’m doing something critical at work, I’m going to make a spot for any and all changes I might want to make to use it again elsewhere, without much effort. That could mean mapping a directory to a volume, setting specific variables in my compose/kompose, having a container grab data from elsewhere every time it starts, or whatever, but the parts I want persistent are, the parts I want variable are.

Keeping whether or not containers are the “right” way on an immutable distro aside, what isn’t persistent for you that should be?

Just to mention, a used or refurb M1 or M2. I don’t believe anything newer is supported, so save some cash IMO.

I use cirrus for radar and the radar widget, breezy for everything else.

No, plenty came right out of Vaxry.

Last I looked they seemed to be trying to do better though. Way lower on the problematic list than anything DHH touches imo.

Debian. For decades.

My first installation was slack and from then until now has been a mix of more things than I care to list, but includes things like freebsd on a DEC multia, a sparcstation pizza box with a 2.6ish kernel maybe?, along with things like Ubuntu, suse, fedora, centos, gentoo, ive built from scratch, I ever remember the days of configuring x with fvwm95 because I thought it would be easier for my parents.

I always go back to Debian. Though I’m happy with arch when I want something ‘current’.

Eh, early Dolby is where they made real progress.

Modern Dolby is more about licensing than actually doing anything for the industry. Not limited to the codec discussion.

I’m going to call this another vote for Debian

Ugh

Fuck Dolby. I mean fuck Snap too, but with this case, in specific, fuck Dolby.

What would your ultimate distro be like?

… Debian.

It drives me nuts.

At least provide a transcript somewhere. Thats all I ask.

RTFM long predates videos in the internet; at this point I’d actually call it inclusive of videos and guides.

I actually get pretty pissed off when the only guide for a feature beyond a couple lines of “here’s what this can do” with no elaboration is just a video. I don’t want a video. I want a damn manual with working examples.

But if its all there is, I’ll watch it before asking questions. The same should go for people who prefer videos, they should at least try the manual first, or looking at some guides or videos.

What’s frustrating for people (generically speaking) is when zero attempt is made in advance of posting questions, and from what I see, is the majority of “RTFM” responses.

Haven’t used that feature to be able to say how that interaction works, or used it with a tobii or anything unfortunately.

The only other thing I can think of to check out would be Jitsi, but I don’t think it does annotation. Iirc, they were adding in something for a laser pointer, but I don’t know where thats at in development or that it would be enough for you use.

The other person can use it still, it doesnt take away local control

Its not exactly call software, so its be a second app, but I think rustdesk supports a whiteboard thats transparent - so basically annotation.

Entirely possible! Thats why I’m curious about what she thinks now though, aside from her admission on camera.

Thats why I’m curious about one that admitted to being wrong, I want to know what she thinks about those things now that she considers a vote for Trump to be a mistake.

Generic MAGA is exactly as you say, thats why I’m curious about a “no longer MAGA” scenario