@romanzolotarev My T450s is still awesome on OpenBSD. If you pick up a large-capacity battery as well, you can hot-swap the removable battery, and OpenBSD rignning lightweight software can go 12 hours minimum before swapping out the big battery for the slim battery to get a few more hours.
@romanzolotarev I hear great things about the X220 as well, but the T450s is pretty light/small already, so I never considered an X this time around, when I bought it new.
In any case, I'd definitely suggest a ThinkPad. They're half of what they were, but still the best (by a smaller margin).
@romanzolotarev#OpenBSD also gives me the longest usable lifetime I've ever gotten out of laptops. It doesn't start feeling slow in six months on Windows, in a year on popular Linux crap, two years on mercilessly tuned Linux, or four on FreeBSD. I expect seven or more, total, out of this.
@romanzolotarev That said, I don't know what to pick from your list except "definitely a ThinkPad". I initially wanted an X1 Carbon, but realized the T450s would be better new, would be better in the long run without upgrades, and was more upgradeable. A good year X1 still sounds nice, though.
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@antranigv That may be lesser-known where you are, but in my environment it's quite popular, and kind of annoyingly so. My impression of Mumford And Sons is a weird, hipsterish, pseudo-ironically loved subgenre of mainstream pop.
@antranigv It feels like the very low-friction, low-effort way to signal one's virtue as someone who loves something that isn't mainstream, but by way of bootstrapping it into mainstream status, granting the MAS fan facile musical taste authenticity in some way. It may be premium mediocre.
@antranigv Of course, I only really take note of mainstream music these days at all when it forces its way into my life (which MAS has done by way of all the people who've listened to it near me), so maybe my perception of its popularity and mainstream accessibility is skewed.
Holy shit, fuck peerlyst. You get to see the lede, then you have to subscribe.
It's not worth my time. I'm pretty sure there's nothing there so valuable and unique that I should go through the hassle of adding it, because it's just emblematic of the problem of:
WALLED GARDENS FUCKING EVERYWHERE
Do you remember when it seemed like everyone agreed walled gardens were shit? I do. We were right. They create echo chambers, content filters, and information monocultures, all terms taken with very negative interpretations here.
In the short term, there's little as important as making sure @i2pd is useful for everyone, and that better browsers like xombrero reappear and thrive, because government is nowhere near done fucking up the internet for us.
In the long term, even more important will be the development of decentralized, distributed HARDWARE infrastructure, e.g. meshnet tech, but that world is such a shitshow I weep for humanity. Even the "good" parts tend to be fatally flawed.
Luckily, despite the completely shitty licenses on some of the more important parts of meshnet tech and other decentralized infrastructure tech, i2pd and meshnet will make enforcement of asinine licenses effectively impossible. Unfortunately, the licenses will hinder uptake.
Strong dynamic types enable different, often inspiring ways to solve problems well, while strong static types enable well-defined, often inspiring ways to solve problems reliably.
Weak dynamic types disable certainty about the correctness of any solution to your problems, while weak static types encourage certainty about things that are in fact unknowable.
These wars over static vs. dynamic types use the rhetoric of strong vs. weak types against the rhetoric of productivity vs. bureaucracy, but ignore the fact many statically typed systems are weakly typed and the fact many dynamically typed systems are bureaucratic.