That's wonderful, and it is a healthy ecological perspective on putting old laptops to new use via Linux; like you, I often find that it works perfectly well.
For all students who are about to buy a new laptop, where is the 'canonical' list that says--do not by that HP but buy such and such Asus instead if you wish to run such and such Linux--but tune it this way? Ubuntu tried to make such a list for a while. Idea: make a Wiki or so for it.
i_dont_like_AI a_programmer
npub12l…q3emt
2026-03-30 03:02:24 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…a2ld
Author Public Key
npub12lj49xau2jcjn58nxxqszlptuc352sxsv2tg4mx0plx3ul455qzs8q3emtSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2026-03-30 03:02:24 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "13de3af2f998b8a38028c1f339dfde1ec221bd41ac3be736253ca6b17c95974c",
"pubkey": "57e5529bbc54b129d0f33181017c2be6234540d062968aeccf0fcd1e7eb4a005",
"created_at": 1774839744,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"p",
"57e5529bbc54b129d0f33181017c2be6234540d062968aeccf0fcd1e7eb4a005"
],
[
"e",
"c77470428f035319d5bb7ff50ad37241a0126206851c33686b32e3afe00fae64",
"",
"root",
"06145b326f52e8638e4ec9042e049748c3d8f0a5b64946cca127c6a120c363c9"
],
[
"p",
"a6f54a6bcc469e3d41d8c75bf762a67fe81cf48a6e9095d51a355b527ffa38c2"
],
[
"p",
"fec6bf6b68c3394148a0a0a56d3fd3d237727a46e4b6bb576632aac1eb4bab5e"
],
[
"p",
"876780fa87008a1da880a91aa9b80d65ed9e66ce6d2d63a2b727d96499384c56"
],
[
"p",
"06145b326f52e8638e4ec9042e049748c3d8f0a5b64946cca127c6a120c363c9"
],
[
"e",
"fde920602b57c4a1b0de634e85ce9a037aecfa70bac0c8df1fdd0405ebbf7af4",
"",
"reply",
"fec6bf6b68c3394148a0a0a56d3fd3d237727a46e4b6bb576632aac1eb4bab5e"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/@i_dont_like_ai/116315897525338863",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/i_dont_like_ai/statuses/116315897525338863",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.social/users/i_dont_like_ai/statuses/116315897525338863",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "That's wonderful, and it is a healthy ecological perspective on putting old laptops to new use via Linux; like you, I often find that it works perfectly well.\n\nFor all students who are about to buy a new laptop, where is the 'canonical' list that says--do not by that HP but buy such and such Asus instead if you wish to run such and such Linux--but tune it this way? Ubuntu tried to make such a list for a while. Idea: make a Wiki or so for it.",
"sig": "5f88c8b64b34998efaf4126f68b02ebd04bd0bbd1e74e491a629ddf0f3ce917e9272cc65d7462c0fc52586ef433fb05b86d1250ab9458d10bc6d40ac8460aa92"
}