If you want to overcomplicate things once, but then simplify everything after (within reason), take a look at netboot.xyz

Set up PXE on your network and never need to mess about imaging a stick again. Here’s a video thatll get you rolling. https://youtu.be/4btW5x_clpg

Here is the project on github https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz

Fwiw I never had a problem hotswapping batteries out

I use a T460 as my daily in the living room.

Mine has an internal battery as well as a removable, large removable is a beast, literally lasts me all day and this machine is like 2017 or so. Backlit.keyboard. not sure they all have it but mine has a sim card slot and wan card built.l in. So internet is easy on a data only sim without tethering. Those wan cards are cheap too if it doesn’t come with.

BIOS has TPM and all that so its easy to secure. Also handles virtual machines well (supports vtx, vtd, Intel text, or and iommu - hyperthreading etc). Typically lenovos T series always have these. I expect most people having issues probably don’t set the BIOS options correctly. Efi supported as expected. Passes all the requirements for w11 if thats your jam. The machine is solid.

I run fedora 39 with sway/hyprland/KDE options. Installed from ‘fedora anything’ image was a breeze via usb. saying that, the only real hindrance these days is lack of usb3.0. So installing from USB is alright the once, but use network for transfers instead of usb sticks if you can.

Resuming from standby isn’t an issue on fedora or arch but it was on debian. If you have any issues, you can send me a PM. The resume from standby issue on Debian was the only thing I never solved reliably.

Oh has ddr3, but those sticks are cheap so you can throw in dual 8gb sodimms for less than 50quid/Euros. I’m sure it’ll take 32gb (dual 16gbs) but I haven’t bothered. I’m running 1600mhz sticks, but it should support up to 2133mhz sticks… have a 1tB ssd slotted in for under 100.

This is faily easy to build using offline models. Only problem is GPU whirring away running typically light terminal commands.

Yeah I feel this. Fucking huge mechanical boxes of fucking shite that should he lobbed down the stairs and anyone who wants to print should be beaten with toner cartridges till they are black and blue, or cymk

I can’t stand Linus. What a tosser

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt

You can host with textgenerationwebui.

Its not quite this sora quality though. Its basically decades old in the age of AI

Haha good one.

There isnt. This latest generation of teens/young adults like to dress up like some anime hussy maid and run arch linux with full RBG and a plushie they probably fuck

Put it in a clear case!!

Maybe it has something to do with being retrained/finetuned on conversations its having

Hasnt apple crashed and burned yet. Why are so many shiny hunting round edged magpies still sucking apples pecker

Triggers a new conversation with the self-hosted LLM voice assistant through home assistant. Just working on giving it the ability to control everything in the house now, and the ability to edit shopping/todo lists, but i can have a fairly fliud voice to voice conversation with it while Im riding my motorbike to work.

Chimera’s

Yeah i ditched utorrent years ago when the installer started being full of shit and adware apps. qbittorrent was how it used to feel

Immutables are easy enough. Had a couple of months on the kde fedora spin. Fresh install and youll have no dnf (equiv of apt in debian) or other terminal tools. Might make you wonder what to do. The trick is toolboxes (or distrobox for a bit more umpfh).

Commands like this

toolbox create testzone

toolbox enter testzone

Install a load of shit that eventually fucks up your config somehow… And if it goes to shit

toolbox rm testzone

If it complains the toolbox is still running when you try to delete you can kill it using podman to find its process id, then you can kill it. I forget the commands though

You can have a stack of toolboxes. Gives you dnf and all your terminal tools. Still a few things to work out with data storage since it locks most of the root directories. It wants you in best practice dirs like /home, /etc but thats also what stops it breaking.

If a toolbox isnt enough, you can use distrobox, which can give you other flavours of *nix within it.

Good luck!!

I read that as “Distro for Piece of Shit”. I was going to say, if you dont like them, install Gentoo.

Personally i tend to use Debian or Fedora. Fedora have also got a few distros that are immutable which if its a pos basically means it shouldnt ever break or get corrupted.

That being said… If it works, dont ‘fix’ it. Debian is a decent OS.

Keyboards are a bundle item. Rarely buy keyboards except people in offices who want a wireless.m+k combo or foreign layout. Desktops always arrive with a keyboard. Every IT dept I ever worked in has piles of them surplus

Ublock and/or firefox is set to strict for enhanced tracking protection, would be my guess.

IMO, Honestly, at this point you probably arent going to miss much.

Youve presumably booted from an external device and installed an OS. I assume the time amd date are right.

Only question really is are you using efi or mbr boot method. If efi, you are probably fine and future proofed unless you want secure boot (windows) you may face an issue then. Thats not to say you will, just you might.