really weird, my touchscreen laptop worked fine

what’s the problem? if you want bigger buttons and stuff you could try gnome?

what’s the problem with syncthing?

the chinese aren’t worse engineers than americans, they’re just usually more incentivised to reduce cost than increase quality

anyway I think the thinkpad design team is still in japan

they’re built way better than their t14/p14s counterparts though, iirc they use the magic alloy for the chassis instead of plastic

would be interesting but I bet the FSF won’t like it

i quite like the cinnamon theme in mint, I think it looks really nice, especially with a vibrant wallpaper. In my opinion it’s modern but simple and relaxing to look at

bro 3 hours wtf

for now

bro I=V/R

it’s certainly interesting, but what do you do when someone actually breaks in?

that’s an incredibly slow cpu (I’ve literally never heard of a 600MHz cpu in anything this century).

You’re free to try, but I wouldn’t expect it to run any web browser (including obsidian, because that’s electron). I’d recommend using it to experiment with extremely lightweight software like Alpine Linux with some lightweight WM

it gets very technical very quickly on Linux, but have a read here: https://linrunner.de/tlp/introduction.html

what terminal emulator are you using?

there’s a bunch of Reddit mirrors, no one likes them

you can buy used hard drives for pretty reasonable amounts of money

Matrix?

very nice!

Sounds stressful asf, you should try take a break and relax (e.g. turn off all computers in the house for a few days). The rushed decisions you make now might not be the best

In terms of suggestions, I’d recommend:

• Isolating untrustworthy network devices (e.g. web3 shit and your roommate’s pc) in VLANs
• Running untrustworthy code in containers or vms
• Getting a proper router (openwrt one maybe?) and managing it yourself, don’t let your roommate touch it
• Setting up firewalls on your pc (restrict ports to the ones you actually need)

This would involve learning more about networking, Wikipedia and the arch wiki has pretty good information on it.

I think for cjk typing you can use fcitx5 with the input method engine corresponding to your language. have a look here

EDIT: actually the arch wiki has a good writeup on this