I still use a 2011 core-i7 Thinkpad T420 running Debian Stable. It's fine. This article set me wondering about installing libreboot or gnu boot or coreboot. Hadn't looked for years. Maybe it's no longer a risky enterprise? Checked the libreboot docs for the T420:

"necessary tools (flat-nose pliers or sleeve tool, screwdriver, small crowbar)"

A fucking crowbar!

Fuck that, and yes, I do have a crowbar.

If you need a Windows VM for a specific application or task then Win 10 makes sense. It runs pretty much anything Win 11 can run, and these days more than Win 7 can manage, and it's a little easier on RAM. No surprise that it's still widely used.

Find Val, discover where the mercs are storing SAMs & RPGs and destroy the base.

Arch fanboi appears and argues against point I never made.

Lol & Q.E.D.

AUR has been a rest home for abandoned and insecure packages for years. A lot of years. It makes Ubuntu's Universe and PPAs look like Fort Knox. Of course whenever anyone makes any less than positive comment about Arch the fanboys descend as a self-righteous, angry, stupid mob so stuff like this goes mostly undiscussed until the shit has hit the fan and been liberally distributed.

Do you ever stop spouting the most idiotic shite?

That's nothing, I can do all of the above with just a teaspoon and a length of string.

Yes, and with that grammar you'd win.

"One day everyone will have invented bitcoin" - apologies to Andy Warhol

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were recited and heard for many hundreds of years before they were ever written down and read. Spoken storytelling is at least as vivid, engaging and stimulating as reading *if* the story is worth hearing *and* narrated by a good storyteller. There are some truly brilliant audiobook narrators but also far too many so inept that they cannot even read and pronounce their own language well or with understanding.

Lenovo make some very nice tablets for the Chinese market. I have a Y700, a couple of years old, bought on aliexpress (I'm in UK). Unfortunately Lenovo is one of the worst offenders for not supporting their Android stuff longer than a year or so. It matters a bit less than with a phone but it is still disappointing. Anyway, they are nice tablets with excellent display and audio, lots of RAM & storage, take a microSD, very fast charging on USB-C. The bootloader can be unlocked and there are custom ROMs but last time I tried any they weren't great.

He finished by stating "Period." Proof indeed.

Write them and ask.

I don't think there is even one in Wales but there are tens of thousands in Argentina (Patagonia).

The Welsh Version of Newspeak is just English.