The fact that proton mail is in the first spot for mail providers made me immediately nope out. If that is listed without a massive asterisk, it’s just no list I’m willing to trust in any way, as it clearly can’t be trusted.

Personally I’ve heard very good things about mailbox.org

It can be paid anonymously, if you want. There is no (real) free option, and you didn’t mention if you were only looking at those, but your examples are mostly free.

Where does the $2700 price come from?

It was the manufacture price when I purchased it.

I poured ~$1200 to Qualcomm/Lenovo

I’m even more confused now. Did you pay 1200$ or 2400$, and if the second why would you for a laptop with these specs?

Have you actually thought about the first point in your second list, the door? Imagine the machine is running and actually full of water, and turning it off releases the door. Would that really make you happy?

That said, your other points in that category are fair, and honestly incredibly weird. I never had a washer do any of that, but I assume it’s to stop your clothes from wrinkling. Are you sure that can’t be turned off?

70 W is very casual riding, like 15 km/h or so. Anyone actually training (20-25 km/h or simulating anything with hills) will be more in the 100-150 W range. My fridge uses 70 W as an example, and only when actively running, with a duty cycle of 40% or so. Obviously this isn’t an industrial fridge or freezer.

Yea I get that. But installing them is far from the troublesome experience it used to be, isn’t it? It’s just a one-click installer that generally “just works” these days?

Bit of a weird reason to recommend a distro for me though? Isn’t installing drivers (even Nvidia) basically just the same as Windows these days?

Why the recommendation of different distros for different GPU?

During the time when I grew up in my parents house, the heat failed exactly once, and there the heating system has to be replaced. It didn’t fail before, it didn’t fail after. It didn’t have any short term “hiccups”, ever. So to answer your question: Once in like 20 years.

Since I’m living on my own, I’ve had trouble starting the very old gas stove for the apartment twice, and each time at the beginning of the heating season. Once it’s running, it just works. The thing is 60ish years old btw. and technicians refuse to touch it for fear of liability. Basically works fine since I cleaned it properly the last time it refused to start.

Heating should be reliable, and it usually just is. What you’re describing is not normal. I don’t even know anyone who has recurring issues with their heat.

That feature kinda works, but it’s incredibly fragile. It has caused so many annoyances for me over the last year or so that I’m finally done with the thing. Just go with immich instead, less headache.

This is only a problem if you subscribe to nitro in the first place. Rookie mistake!

There’s this saying “this isn’t an airport, no need to announce your departure”. So unless there’s an actual need for people to know where I am going and/or why, there’s no point in telling them.

If the people in the room are your close friends, that’s a different question though.

Imma be honest, kinda forgot this exists. It must be 20 years or close to that since I last used (or tried to use) it. Will look into what it does these days though.

Not anymore, I hope from his description…

If you got that kind of money to spend on a laptop, sure. I really don’t.

Edit: to be clear, I know this is a stack of Mac’s in OPs picture, but the development that the entry models have basically no ports at all is a more recent development. Having to pick the pro just to be able to connect your stuff without dongles or hubs is a bit insane considering the price (and price difference).

I can only assume that is the main reason for this change. Pitty.

It’s great and all (it really is), but the target audience was just presented factorio 2.0 (and space age), so we’re busy for a few months.

This sounds like it only boots Linux ISOs? I kinda need the ability to boot all kinds of images, only some of them Linux based.

I would recommend “Sophia script”. It is a highly customizable debloat script for Windows 10 & 11.

Ad others have said, nextcloud won’t rescan or reindex on a reboot. no idea why sync thing does, and surely there must be some way to disable that, too. I’m still hesitant to recommend NC as it’s somewhat fragile, needs way more babying than I’m willing to keep up with and just does too many things, none of them anywhere close to “well”. File sync on real computers works solidly if you have a reliable connection (don’t get me started on Android).

Have you considered using a real media-hoster, like Jellyfin (or like a dozen others)? Jellyfin works fine for music (the are other music-only solutions though). There are plenty of clients that can stream, and have offline support (download a subset/albums/playlists) for things like laptops, phones, … The server can usually transcode audio formats that a client can’t play, in real-time, if needed.

Edit: I realize I wasn’t clear as to what this means in practice. You essentially get a self-hosted Spotify. Your library, run from your server, optionally you can connect to it from anywhere.