Lenovo ThinkPads work very nicely with Linux, and there’s a large second-hand market. The T and X series are especially great I find.

The usual advice about avoiding soldered RAM holds in general, but right now used laptops are being bought just for stripping RAM. So I think putting up with soldered RAM in second hand devices (I’d go for at least 32G) can be a smart move because it may be a better deal (and often a smaller form factor).

This is not difficult to achieve at all with tools like sed or awk. But unless you provide a concrete example input file or files, all we can do is point to those tools.

Yes, should have said “to have another excuse”

On the contrary, whoever is running current software on a 90s ThinkPad will be over the moon to have an excuse to patch the kernel

The problem is that /-o will also match something like --my-irrelevant-option.

Word boundaries match the end (or the beginning) of the word.

How exactly to do it depends on the regex library, my less is built with PCRE2 therefore I can do /-o\b.

I’m playing it right now on the Steamdeck, it’s a lot of fun! 20 hours in but it still feels like there’s a lot to explore (skill issue maybe).

Object.property = theft;

I spent 2-3 hours on Noita, but it never clicked for me, sadly. Loved Baba, added it to my post as well.

Why yes, buying indie games from non-US studios are a fantastic way to support alternative modes of production.

Thanks for the recommendation, it’s even on GOG! Saved to my wishlist.

Interesting question, here are some EU-made indie games I’ve enjoyed, in no particular order. I had to look all of these up, I didn’t play them because they were European or anything.

• Baba Is You (Finland) [e: forgot]
• Chants of Senaar (France)
• Dead Cells (France)
• Disco Elysium (Estonia)
• Drova (Germany)
• Monster Train (Netherlands)
• Roadwarden (Poland)

If you’re not averse to CLI and some tinkering, i think khal may suit your needs.

I think Gnome + Flatpak is a great setup for GUI only. Fedora is annoying to set up with nonfree drivers and codecs, otherwise it’s a great choice for this.

(Also, don’t try convert your friends, just wait until they come to you and ask for help installing Linux.)

I have a very similar setup and it’s been running without major hiccups for years.

I’ve been hearing the same tales of caution ever since I got my hands on that SUSE CD-ROM. I’m definitely much more careful when touching the setup compared to other stuff I self host, but it’s not impossible or anything.

It’s not something one should hurry. Read up on all the standards and documentation, set them up step by step with a throwaway domain. Avoid the big no-nos from the very beginning: Make sure to never accept relay submissions from unauthenticated users, and don’t bounce anything off-server.

It’s been a fun journey for me, and I always find it a bit sad when people who might be interested to learn are immediately discouraged. If you feel like giving it try, go for it!

Hm, I’d probably get a copy for the fantasy section as well. It really reads like a fantasy adventure.

The partition containing the files may be mounted readonly. Check less /etc/mtab for an ro option on that entry.

What you’re planning seems plausible.

You could also resize the partition on (1) to fit on (2), then dd if=(1) of=(2)

If you’re interested in structural changes that make this sort of thing easier in the future, look into

• ZFS or Btrfs for flexible handling of subvolumes
• NixOS or GUIX for applying system configuration across machines

If I saw that folder name while using a friend’s machine I would know not to click on it to respect their privacy.

Hypholoma laeteritum seems very reasonable to me. Central Europe here.

Depotaufenthalte? Ich stehe auf dem Schlauch