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> they no longer have the thinkpads we know and love layout. however there are some newer models that are making the turn back around. although that soldered ram is for marks.

Yeah, thus my whole DevTerm situation. You don't even have to keep the same CPU architecture.

> i3 from xfce/ratpoison

Yeah, I've bounced around WMs some. Except on one machine (this one, which runs fvwm), I'm just running ratpoison everywhere nowadays.

> to keep myself flexible i'd swap window managers to force myself to adapt after.

I think there's a threshold, right, you can deal with some number of new things at a time if you want to keep work going, so I don't bother twiddling distro or window manager or things like that very often.

> merc the codes.

:terryapproves:

> it's a sub-optimal stick

Well, in this case it's a stick I love. I legit like the DevTerm more than I liked my T60, if that's an indicator. Any machine's gonna have trade-offs, upsides and downsides, this one I like very much, the downsides (keyboard is workable but is a little small, no place to shove 2TB SATA disk, some software is dumb about vertical resolution so I sometimes have to tell X to do panning, things like that) are minimal, and the upsides are it's a very convenient machine: I can type on it conventionally, I can lay down and hold it up and thumb-type, I can stand up and hold it with one hand and type with the other, or hold it with one hand and scroll PDFs with the same hand; battery is standard 18650, lasts a very long time because low-wattage CPU; very hackable machine, schematics and .stl files are published, circuit diagrams, anything can be replaced; no moving parts so less wear and tear; as many USB ports as a Thinkpad.

The RISC-V one that I did Slackware on, that's kind of a wimpy single-core CPU, only 1GB RAM, but because none of it is devoted to running a conventional browser, it actually feels nicer.