ThinkPads generally aren’t low to medium Windows laptops though, they’re literally several thousand dollar machines. It’s just they age incredibly well, so they end up on the used market at a heavily discounted price after a while. I’d be surprised if a Chromebook outperformed a ThinkPad when it comes to actual performance.

Yeah that’s a good point about keyboard and mice, that’s kind of why I like having an actual standalone laptop. For me I feel like a tablet isn’t as portable as a phone, but it’s also not as useful as a standalone laptop, so it’s kind of hard for me to find a use case for it.

faster with the things it can do

What do you mean by this? Surely you don’t mean actual performance, right?

I don’t game a ton but having the performance to be able to do so is really nice IMO. The battery life is great as well (like 6+ hours depending on what you do etc), and being able to put any OS I want on it is huge too. I also like how durable it is too.

I feel like if I got a tablet, I’d want a keyboard, and then a mouse too. That’d still be best for portability though, most likely, but it’s kind of nice having a full laptop experience.

I was thinking of buying a Chromebook for travelling cause it’s cheap. I was very close to buying one, but someone told me about the world of used ThinkPads. I ended up buying a used ThinkPad with an AMD R7 4750U and I am so glad I did. It can run literally every game I want lol

I thought it was his sister who wrote the speech the AI read, but yeah, this whole thing feels wrong and gross.

Windows is malware.

I remember when Linux users used to say that, but it turns out they were right.

I’m glad I leaved that cursed OS behind.

I mean, it’s kind of not incorrect:

Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft’s forced Windows 11

Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol

I agree with the first part of what you said, but I disagree with your last sentence.

I have been using Linux on my desktop PCs and laptops since 2017 and it’s been working great for me, even playing games. Honestly, I probably play more games on Linux than I did back when I was on Windows lol

Pirating Nintendo games is ethical.

Good, make them suffer.

I meant it’s disappointing that they haven’t addressed any of the security issues.

That’s really sad. Damn, how disappointing.

Many of these have already been fixed FWIW, it’s not a collection of open issues. Nevermind, they have only been closed, not fixed. Yikes.

It’s covered up yeah, most of the republicans are too dumb to realize it.

Nobody is referring to 10 years as “months”.

When you’re talking about multiples of years, it’s going to be called years, not months. They were obviously talking about a short timeline, less than 2 years, likely less than 1 year.

They have no idea what they’re talking about.

Like I said, months is a joke.

Yep, months is a joke, doubly so when talking about tens of millions of lines of code and also COBOL specifically.

This is going to be a hilarious disaster but not so hilarious when people who need the benefits need them and won’t be able to get them.

It is indeed very difficult to type convert 001.jpg example.pdf and ffmpeg -i rock.mp4 rock.avi

Because it’s easy to accidentally run services or set up services temporarily and forget that you left them running. With UPnP being able to automatically/dynamically open ports, a firewall is just another layer of protection. You can also configure firewalls to ignore packets silently or log dropped packets, and if applications ever get new versions and end up listening on new ports, you would have to manually allow the ports. Maybe you want to have one part of an application accessible through the firewall but not another part of the application.

Plus, like you said, country blocking is another feature which personally I think is nice to have, and there are also other features too like being able to throttle connections, especially with things like fail2ban.

It’s just another layer of protection, and it ensures that everything you run is deliberate.

Yes, correct, I made a typo. I fixed it now.

I edited my comment to better and more fully reflect my thoughts. It’s hard to properly express myself when I’ve been as sick as I have been with bronchitis and possible pneumonia for the past 4 weeks.

Hopefully my comment now better reflects my thoughts.