Any second-hand business class laptop that fits your budget, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.

Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they’re still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.

You’ll have to install Linux yourself, but generally support for older hardware is OK.

IMPORTANT: make sure the BIOS isn’t locked before buying.

Don’t really know about the US, sorry. eBay might be a good place though.

Any second-hand business class laptop, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.

Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they’re still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.

Here in the Netherlands my level of German is widely called “steenkolen Duits” (coal German) because it’s course, harsh, hard and dirty)

That’s actually not the etymology. Steenkolenduits (spelled without a space) is a riff on steenkolenengels, which was the basic/broken English spoken by dockworkers with sailors on incoming British coal ships (steenkolenboten).

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steenkolenduits

You definitely shouldn’t need to do that, one account is enough.

Maybe you’re confused because communities can be on different instances (servers). But you don’t need to make an account on those instances, because all the instances are federated together. That means you can just have your account on one instance and follow and participate in all your communities from there.

WHAT YOU SAY?!

The word you’re looking for is ‘social democracy’, which is a broadly capitalist system with socialist elements.

Belgium has them

Ah, but how do you know that the code is well-written?

There have been multiple cases in smart contracts where the code looked good, but a subtle bug ended up being exploited.

I believe if you create a crontab on a systemd system, it actually synthesizes systemd timers from the crontab entries

Is it free? I thought e-mail is only in the paid iCloud plans

Yeah Synology is pretty good with that kind of stuff (we use one at work). They’ve really just got a Linux system with custom management tools on top. Of course for DIY purposes, self-building is still cheaper and more flexible though.

Interesting blog!

Clicked on your NAS article (one of the first linked ones) and spotted an error… you write that Synology NAS boxes don’t use standard RAID, but they do. They have official docs up on how to hook them up to a standard Linux system for disaster recovery (it’s just Btrfs or ext4 on mdadm RAID).

Probably not super relevant for you or most readers, but just thought I’d point it out :)

Not sure about the BSDs, but for Linux you don’t actually need GRUB anymore these days. On modern (i.e. UEFI) systems, you can boot the kernel directly as an EFI binary (this is known as EFISTUB booting).

Nitpick: it’s performant (capable of a high level of performance), but not performative (being done as a performance).

Only on Lemmy 💀

I think this is a better ask for !privacy@lemmy.ml

Important to say, I mean products you use even though there are alternatives, not monopolies like YouTube.

I don’t think this is quite true when it comes to YouTube. There are plenty of alternatives that content creators could use (and some do), from Vimeo to Nebula to PeerTube.

The reason content creators prefer to upload on YouTube are the user base and monetization opportunities. They’re not forced to do so, and in fact YouTube is facing competition from e.g. Twitch and TikTok.

Will the real Jesus Christ please stand up?

Others already gave some good suggestions, but if you want to keep using your computer, another option could be a second display and a drawing tablet (e.g. Wacom)