arch on my two laptops, and desktop. proxmox on my server as the hypervisor, and debian on the vm/lxc. my routers are running openwrt.

one of my laptops i use for testing, and i do switch distro’s… i’ve tried alpine, gentoo and i’d like to try openbsd. but arch is comfy

hell ya for being able to buy these used as office surplus in 5 or so years

The author pretty clearly states why they used the form factor:

it’s my take on the slab style computers that were somewhat popular before the world settled on clamshell designs for portable computers. I really wanted a TRS-80 model 100 when I was young so this sort of design was a big influence.

not everything is built for everyone, and that’s cool & fun

No matter what, whether it’s pebble or apple, non-serviceable batteries are “atrocious” and “unethical”. While expected from apple; it would be nice to expect more from pebble.

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Not much. There are some tech communities that I still monitor there to keep up with the general public. and then i check my local city subreddit sometimes.

But mostly use rss, and then lurk lemmy.

…wait… you aren’t paying your monthly antifa membership dues?