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Do tell, if only in general terms - might just be motivational, or might inspire someone in an adjacent area.

Yes - you’ll be well-served by the ThinkPad line in general. My first permanently dedicated Linux machine was a T430 and true to form things largely “just worked.”

That was enough years ago that I might well have needed to seed the network drivers on the usb key, and that was the worst of it.

They’re tanks, and the hw is generally easy and fairly intuitive to swap out the usual memory and HDD.

IIRC my first distro on that was Debian, had plenty of docs about the intersection of the distro and ThinkPad line.

Mint should be perfectly fine given that.

I will say that I try not to do fresh installs on unfamiliar hardware w/o some other available form of connectivity, my phone mostly is quite sufficient for the purpose. It’s just easier not to risk putting myself in a difficult position in the first place.

You’re in for some fun.

Colorado tried a few years back. Vermont has made the effort over the years. Not aware of any successful ones, but like anything else it's a process and requires raising awareness/changing understanding before you'll get a ballot initiative through.

There were some elements of CO's proposal that I really liked.

Edit: It's not entirely dead but they're definitely not there yet.

Wasn't but a few hours ago that I was telling someone elsewhere in the fediverse that food is a human right and directly causing famine (Palestine) is unacceptable use of human rights as weapons.

Fortunately, when Israel couldn't quite be offensive enough at that exact moment, Arizona sat up and said "Hold my beer, y'all!"

the president’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

And yet I'm seeing him call for exactly that, and publicly suggesting that it's achievable by the weekend or Monday. Just because we didn't all get cut in on the news cycle doesn't mean it isn't happening or relevant...

That's an astute observation.

TN is home not only to a motivated republican political class bent on ensuring their continued role overseeing the state's people and determining what access to medical care should be available, but also to the Country Music Hall of Fame and to Jack Daniels Distillery. The latter is interesting and getting there takes you through beautiful country, but you should know it's located in a "dry county" before you go and their products can't be sold there.

TN is also the last state I'm aware of where fire departments were in recent years permitted to respond only to protect neighboring property rather than to protect the property which was actually on fire; but had not paid its subscription service

Well, that last doesn't exactly cast it in a positive light, either. But that's life in a red state for ya, there's a whole lot of gorgeous country that is (politically) painted bright red, unfortunately. While I've little need to travel presently, there aren't many southern states I'd go out of my way to spend money in, if I could help it.

There’s one that you had to leave for a day per some interval (a year iirc) and could come right back and resume your effectively residential (but not technically) life. Can’t find it now but…

Seems Georgia offers a year at a time with a simple day trip across the border as needed.

Language would be a helluva challenge but…. Alright. I’d take the learning curve over living under Emporer Big Mac.

Can almost guarantee some of the cheap Asian manufactured ones are. Law of averages.

I’m male, and my voice is pretty unmistakeable so I can’t very well man the hotlines for agencies helping women find ways to get out of shitty states and have abortions.

I’d happily run all over the tri-state acquiring burners by the bunch though, for this exact use case.

I speak American, so perhaps I missed a nuance, it the premise seems clear: it’s not encryption if Eve has the keys one way or another.

Nailed it. Debt paid down in your twenties is gone.

Debt you barely service until your forties…. Never goes away.

I am old enough (and was a theatre geek as a kid) to know the number of minutes in a year without needing Wiki...

...Thanks, Rent.

Are they based out of the PNW? Now that I think about it, I may actually have interviewed with them at one point.

ETA: Yeah, pretty sure it was them, they're PT and have a 425 DID for sales, and the company name is wholly unrelated to the product. Had forgotten about them entirely, and would have had the same reaction as OP to getting that email now.

And it probably is the sw product the email was referencing, since Bartender is capitalized.

IWW comes to mind. They’re not aligned with any particular trade etc, unlike most unions.

Also…. See “You Deserve a Tech Union” recently published. If cost is an issue there is an arrangement that can be made, see author’s masto acct.

Personally, I was hired fully remote, and would fight like hell right beside you any attempt to drag me back. I’m fortunate to be four plus hours from the office I’d likely work in otherwise, so I do t expect to need to fight - I lived here when they hired me.

Whatever you learn and whatever options you find, please come back and post as it will help others.

Excellent word choice, I hear “modicum” so rarely.

So, it’s EOL but they’re still collecting as much data as possible, basically?

The local utility co tried to give me a free google thermostat. Nooooope.

Three decades ago, as a kid, the electric co-op put a device on our water heater that would limit energy to that specific device at times of high load. That was sensible, and had zero listening capabilities. It’s also as close as I want to get to (commercial) voice assistants.

When you could express the same sentiment in a few keystrokes? Nah, I’ll text lol

That’s actually kinda adorable.

All the damn time. If I’m I. The same room and we’re both awake, I speak, but if she’s asleep or I’m working and can’t escape from a vid meeting…. Signal it is.

For various reasons, my memory isn’t worth a damn, so there’s an added benefit of “yes, I told my wife that important thing” in the history

We live on one floor, with a bedroom, an office, a living room, and a kitchen. It’s definitely not that I’m too lazy to take the ten or twelve steps across the house lol