Yep, this is it. I volunteered for my school’s IT department in high school, this was basically the logic. The laptops are cheap and easy to manage/administrate. Whether or not they were Linux was a non-issue.

Edit: also, since chromeOS is basically just a browser, there wasn’t much that could break, and if something did break everything was stored in google drive anyway, so you could just factory reset the device and hand it back to the student without needing to buy any kind of higher-level support contract.

the internet in general kind of sucks these days. Reddit has burned down a lot of the things that made its search results so useful in the past. Every forum post more than a few years old is a forest of broken links; the top of basically any internet search whatsoever is an ocean of SEO spam. And that’s before you get into the sheer amount of information that isn’t searcheable at all because it’s on platforms like discord.

I’ll tell you why I haven’t deleted reddit – aside from tech-heavy discussion here (Linux, Reddit, tech generally, that sort of thing), there isn’t a fediverse equivalent to things like the sports or food subreddits I follow.

I agree iscussions on lemmy are higher-quality and friendlier, for sure. But for a lot of the things I use reddit for they just don’t really exist here yet.

SSDs are very cheap these days

The motherboard itself is also open-source: https://github.com/system76/virgo/

The x220 is quite easily the best laptop ever made imo, and I’ll never understand why they just don’t slap modern hardware into it and re-release it.

I use manjaro, but it isn’t what I would call stable.

Agreed. If verbal agreements and handshake deals can be legally binding contracts, I don’t see why emoji wouldn’t be.

I would use one of the tools listed in the archwiki; I have an intel chip so I’ve never used any myself.

Once you find a tool that can undervolt, usually the recommendation is to lower the voltage incrementally until you see unstable behavior and crashes, than raise it back to the last good voltage, then run a stress-test to verify.

just the readme for throttled

I kind of wish I had played with ROMs and stuff earlier. I still like the idea, but I don’t use it because I use mobile payments so much that it would be a PITA not to have that working.

specifically battery life for my University classes

try undervolting your CPU/GPU. That was the first thing I did when I got my thinkpad and it improved the thermals and battery life significantly.

Not true breakage usually, but eventually I got tired of having new surprise bugs in shit that was working fine before.

yep, considering switching to nixos for this reason.

I’ve been very happy with Pocket Casts. Their subscription is pretty cheap (not one-time though, unfortunately), and it has automatic sync between the android and desktop apps.

yeah that’s true, even properly permissioned users can break their systems

I guess what I am trying to figure out is – how would the experience of using flatpak or other containerized software managers differ on an immutable system compared to a mutable one?

Or is the idea more that since you’re containerizing, you can lock everything else for stability in a way that you couldn’t before, because software installs needed to be installed in the system?

I didn’t get it either, but this video does a pretty good job explaining why it’s different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQWirkx5EY

can only speak to Germany, but it definitely is pretty common to tip here. Just less across-the-board and less money than in the US, usually 1 or a couple of Euros.

die meisten von uns zahlen nicht mal die Bundessteuern, man muss schon relativ wohlhabend sein als Auslandsami bevor man Steuern zahlen muss – IIRC muss man mehr als $107,000 brutto im Jahr einbringen, und man zählt (zumindest in Deutschland) keine doppelte Einkommensteuer; d.h. wenn man 120,000 brutto macht zählt man Steuern nur auf 13,000 davon; dann kann man die Menge, die man als Einkommenssteuer an der BRD gezahlt hat, auch nochmal rausnehmen; wenn man zB 33% einkommenssteuer gezahlt hat (als Beispiel, ich kenne die echte Zahl in der Einkommensklasse nicht), darf man 4290 von den $13000 abschlagen, und zahlt nur noch US-Einkommenssteuer auf $8580 – was in der Einkommensklasse 24% wären, oder $2145.

honestly, part of the reason I made a lemmy account at all is because it feels a little like reddit when I first started using it – pretty niche, and less toxic and low-quality because of it.

reddit in the last few years has become very toxic. The smaller communities are still okay, but on all of the main subs it’s just page after page of the same snarky jokes and tired memes.

so while more growth would be nice, I’m fine if most of reddit stays on reddit in the short-term. the fediverse can be its own thing.