I'm a linux developer of 25+ years and I'm permanently banned from /r/linux because I dared criticize systemd.

My answer is therefore: Power-tripping mods. Where mods are required, ensure the community has the ability to oust them.

Lenovo is renowned for their excellent linux compatibility. I'm sure you'll get a bunch of proponents here saying the same.

BUT, oh boy. Don't get me started...

Too late. Having used various models of thinkpads in recent years, their inconsistent keyboard layouts will drive you absolutely insane. I swear, at this point they're just fucking with us.

I've got one in pieces somewhere, that has/had the ~ key next to the FN key on the bottom row! How the fuck are you supposed to use Linux if you're ~ key is down there? It's fucking stupid.

Not to mention their keys have a tendency to break off with just the mildest of fist slams.

AND the latest work-issued recent model is fucking with us again! It has the FN key ON THE LEFT SIDE of the Ctrl key on the left. Who does that? The Ctrl is always the left-most bottom key. Now, every time I fucking go to press Ctrl+something, I end up hitting FN instead.

Fucking morons! At this rate this laptop will also end up in pieces.

So, tldr; Stay the fuck away from Lenovo if you want to use Linux and not end up in prison for vehicular homicide.

"If you are not able or willing to reopen and maintain the community please let us know."

No, don't do that. Stall and don't answer for as long as possible. As soon as you tell them you are not willing, you will be replaced.

Hi Spez, my advice is to hold off for a while on that IPO.

You should have a look at Sebastian Lague's programming videos on Youtube. He models various things (eg: predator/prey/ant colonies, slime growth) using a few very simple rules. They're just beautiful. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iSQQgOd1A

got them to install and use IDEs instead of just VS Code

This is the only thing that bothered me. I'm a developer of 25+ years and if someone was forcing me to use a particular IDE I would leave at lunch time and not come back.

An IDE is little more than a glorified text editor. Who cares how a dev prefers to edit a text file, as long as the text file gets edited?

I'm a vim user and if you told me to use a different IDE, you would be halving my productivity, destroying my morale and ultimately costing the company a lot of money.

Yeah, I'm conflicted too. On one hand, fuck Oracle. On the other hand, fuck IBM.

"probably won’t be very good content for the average human to view"

Well, no changes there then.

Yeah, can we defederate^*^ from this guy and his fancy fonts?

^*^ Whatever the hell that means

Yeah, I don't understand how all this works either. But I'm enjoying the process. Feels like a new home.

Stay classy, San Diego Nine.

What does that mean?

Are you talking about about the lack of games on Linux? Because that makes no sense. Check out protondb.com

And if your GPU is still only lukewarm, Stable Diffusion runs better in Linux than Windows.

Buying a laptop that can run SD will cost you more than twice as much as an equivalent desktop. A desktop will also remain upgradeable for the next 10 years or so.

A really good read. And kudos to the author for seeing the error of their ways.

Probably 10 years for minimum viable product, 20+ years for something that isn't terrifying.

It'd be a much wiser investment to spend 2 years getting outside and in shape, expanding your interests, then finding a real one.

Watch Groundhog Day with self-improvement in mind. Life changing.

In the future, how would you know? We're not far off from AI content being indistinguishable from the real thing.

Holy shit dude. At 8 hours a day, that's over 3 years of full time play! How do you support yourself?

My ex was a ho ho person.

If you're technically inclined, a simple bash script with a for loop could dump the time and discharge rate to a text file every minute. Then you could copy/paste that into LibreOffice calc and do yourself some pretty graphs, or whatever.

edit: just found a tool called powerstat which looks like it does sampling over longer intervals.

sudo apt install powerstat

Ah right, I see. Sounds like you're making the right choices in the context of your unfortunate situation. Yeah, playing games pretty much rules out a remote desktop setup. Sorry I don't have any more answers to your questions, but you're clearly asking the right ones.