To be fair, I never fully understood why programming projects have to be native Finlanders, in the end.
I’ve been fond of the HP Elitebook series; not the strongest powered of things but fairly easy to replace things like the battery, fan, or keyboard (in one of the worst streaks I’ve ever had in owning a computer – I literally cannot think of having done anything like it, before –, I managed to get a sufficient amount of liquid into the keyboard 3 times in the span of, like, 2–3 months; random keys went dead within days of each spill. So I ended up replacing the keyboard three time and that was pretty much all I needed to do. Kept chugging, after each time and entirely usable, still (now that the keyboard’s replaced)).
If you’re fine with buying an older generation, you can easily grab a used one for no more than $200.
And toys, if you want, but their scratching posts are getting in need of replacement and I never know what kind of trees would be more than just passable for our two cats; I’d like something they’d genuinely get excited about and not just find to be yet another surface to nap on.
Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.
This; I’m so sick of hearing it pop up when people mention alternatives.
That “eye” makes me desire dying.