I’m not familiar with European pricing. But in general avoid refurbished thinkpads of that age. You’re paying twice the price for a laptop that someone wiped physically and software wise. If you’re capable of reinstalling windows and handling a paper towel then just buy a regular “used” machine from eBay or your l local facebook marketplace equivalent. There’s not really much that goes wrong with these machines, and that’s why people buy them.

That said T580 all day long. The L series are the cheaper built machines, and the 90 series in general are basically just 80 series but worse.

Uefis have been around since ~2010 so at this point all distros understand how to use them, and at this point default to working perfectly with them.

Secure boot is the only real potential road block. You can just turn it off if you don’t care about it.

This is the same as complaining that my job puts a filter on my work computer that lets them know if I’m googling porn at work.

That is an extreme leap what the fuck.

Network filters that block certain domains.

Vs

Key logger that tracks everything you type into the computer, even things you’ve deleted.

To license the arcitecture it costs a whole lot less, but when it comes to getting an actual usable computer they cost the same or more as an ARM machine, and perform worse.

For micro controllers (currently) it’s great.

plus

“One of the things about Horse Armour that you have to remember is Bethesda, I believe, was the very first company to do downloadable content expansions,” Nesmith told us. “Nobody had done that before for the platforms. We literally pioneered that. And so Bethesda didn’t know what the hell it was doing at the time. We didn’t know!”

“it keeps getting faster and faster” isn’t really saying much when it’s 1/10th the performance of a raspberry pi.

It’s amazing what a modern process node and not cranking clock speeds to high hell will do.

After switching to Mac OS I have 0 interest in using Linux on my actual conputer. I still have windows machine for work, and my servers are all Linux. But any machine I want to use is gonna run Mac.

Windows 10 is over 10 years old at this point. Microsoft learned from XP It can’t live forever.

Businesses typically lease their machines for 2-3 years so they all support 11. And do you really think the government cares about regular citizens? lol.

Is that just to work out your core muscles? Because these easier ways to work them out.

That usually involves replacing drives, and drives get expensive fast. Synogy and all the other NAS makers won’t make a >4 bay NAS without charging an arm and a leg for them. Then there’s the cost of replacing a perfectly good hard drive with another of a large capacity. And because you want redundancy that doesn’t mean just one drive, that meant at least 2 possibly all 4 drives.

Do you not go to work?

If it’s a phone I wouldn’t want it left on my porch. But literally anything else? Leave it there. I don’t want to go out of my way to pick up a USB cable that was ordered online.

Also I’m pretty sure they took that out of the TOS a while ago.

You still have to pay for the cell service to connect the car. That’s going to cost a whole lot more than $1

Docker requires hardware virtualization so kinda but not really. Apparently it runs inside of a VM so that’s a no go.

Honestly I think you’re asking way too much for a VPS, or even a full blown server. If you want to run CAD software you’ll also want a remotely capable GPU and you won’t get that in a server unless you’ve explicitly put something in it. The built in GPUs in servers are like radeon 3450s that are 15 years old and are basically just video adapters and not actual “graphics processing units”. If you have your own server I’d throw a GPU in there and try running your software there. But honestly any remotely modern laptop will probably run faster than a cheap rented server.

Docker Desktop for Linux runs a Virtual Machine (VM).

Looks like you’d still need virtualization.

With a vps expect to lose all virtualization

I guess it’s neat that it’s kinda like whatever this guy is called https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CF95VL2Y plus the power-z tester built into one. I wonder if the power-z could be updated via software to do cable pinout testing.

What I’d really like to see is a device that actually tries to send 40gbits of data down the cable and makes sure it comes through clearly and provides a signal integrity reading. The only devices I’ve seen that do that are essentially just oscilloscopes and signal generators.

Even on the 30 series the hit is pretty bad. Past the 10 series you see some pretty big performance penalties from the lack of bandwidth and added CPU overhead.