That’s pretty impressive performance for something that small, but if I’m going to spend $2k, I want a desktop that I can upgrade.

If it can’t own my media, I’m certainly not going to pay for it.

How do you fit a laptop CPU in a watch? I think I’ll stick with my Casio that runs for more than 5 years on a coin cell.

what happens when Little Timmy spends $9000 for Nlartbux in a mobile game’s external store?

That’s why you don’t put your credit card info in a phone or tablet and let kids play with it.

Play around in a virtual machine so you don’t have to worry about messing anything up. Start with the basics such as navigating through directories and creating, editing, and moving files. If you break something, just restore a snapshot.

It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.

Big tech is our enemy. It doesn’t matter if it’s facebook or tiktok.

You typically only have issues if you want to use a newly released card with a distro that doesn’t run a recent kernel or if you want to use GPU compute.

It should be able to run games that support ARM. That means you are pretty much limited to open source games. The CPU clock speed is fairly low, so don’t expect great performance. These systems are intended for heavily multithreaded workloads.

The Steam Deck is the only decent console because it’s not locked down.

OneWeb mainly sells to businesses, but they also sell to other ISPs that resell to consumers.

That lets a USB C port function as a DisplayPort output so you can connect the phone to a monitor without using some laggy wireless streaming crap.

The only one that’s operational and suitable for home internet is OneWeb. They don’t sell the service to directly to consumers though.

It’s probably best to try that with a live CD.

A Thinkpad T480 would meet those requirements. Stick with the i5 version with integrated graphics to avoid overheating issues.

Or fiber optic cables with gold plated connectors.

I would love to have a phone that I could just plug into a USB C dock and use as a normal computer. They’ve got plenty of processing power for that now. Every single program I use except for games could run on a phone if it used normal GNU/Linux.

OK, now make an OLED monitor with a standard RGB subpixel arrangement so that subpixel antialiasing works correctly.

If you’re using windows, make sure you set it to show file extensions. Watch out for files with a double extension such as “mkv.exe”. That’s guaranteed to be malware. Don’t open any link, bat or com files either.

Yes, they still make USB floppy drives.