Jeebus that's one heckuva wall of text. I skimmed:

ca glue

When it comes to the broader "superglue" you mentioned, I've used several that create a bond by melting the surfaces it's applied to. I get it - you were trying to get across "metal good" and "superglue" just gets across easier. But if you knew the horror stories I've seen in the process of helping thousands of newbies troubleshoot hardware issues, you wouldn't be so flippant about your instructions.

Based on the ops own post, the ssd is idling at 67 or so c. We wanna keep it below 90 for [explanation redacted].

the heat is coming from inside the ssd

OP's ssd that should be idling in the 40C range is idling at 67C. Do you think addressing just the ssd temps with a heatsink will solve OP's issue or is there some core problem that needs to be addressed before we even start talking about ssd load temps? With 3 ssd failures so far and unaddressed heat issues in other components reported by OP, how long do you think OP's motherboard, PSU or other components are going to last?

• t480 - dual RAM slots, dual batteries
• t480s/t490s/t14s - soldered ram
• t490/t14 - one bank soldered, one slot free

this is the list, nothing else, no Yogas, no Carbons. stay away from AMD models until the 5000-series, all earlier ones are a nuisance to run. feel free to get busted units - broken screen, bad keyboard, as working on those is easy, there are detailed hardware maintenance manuals available, for free and parts are cheap, plentiful and cross-model/generation compatible.

soldered RAM used be eww; nowadays with the prices, it's neat to get basically free RAM, provided it's at least 16 GB on-board. whichever you get will be plenty fine for the stated use cases. make sure you get a good battery, as getting those is expensive (boot off a live USB and upower -b)

remember, the goal isn't to get "a thinkpad". the goal is to get extraordinary value, in this case a discarded corpo workhorse that's still got plenty life in it, at a bargain price. if you're in an area where the stated models are plentiful and cheap, grab one. if they're overpriced, look for value elsewhere. e.g. Dell Latitude 74xx and HP Elitebook 840 are in the same ballpark.

This is so fucking hilarious

I dunno about what game OP is referring to, but I agree that GitHub is too confusing. Is the normal way to access GitHub via terminal? I was raised on exe's and dmg's, and I must've missed the class about git.

Just know that NixOS has no support for SELinux or apparmor. Though if you are into that model of 'no by default' I have something related but for the files under root: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence

I am sick and tired of waiting for linux.exe /s

Thanks, I'm testing it right now and it feels so similar to Clementine. I'll keep using it for a bit longer before changing but it does what I need it to.

Yeah, KDE is definitely a difference maker. I'm looking at this too. I've been using Mint and Kubuntu for a while now so I'm trying not to hop around with different Linux OSs. Everything is as I like it for now so I don't really need to change.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing, SELinux is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. The default is no, and you’re gonna have to convince it otherwise. I’m just not all that great at convincing it otherwise cleanly.

I migrated the system from ARM to X86 for the GPU last time when I built it, and I’ve been looking for ways of reducing energy consumption, and one of those ways is collapsing every virtual machine I can into containers so this can fit surprisingly well for me

I recommend the T series and the X series. P series too but they're just really chunky.

I can personally vouch for x1 carbons and the t14

Right now my server is Proxmox/Debian/Docker and I've been waiting for it to blow up so I can finally have an excuse to put time into migrating to something better, but after years of barely touching it it still works lol.

This is my first time hearing about NASty. Right now I run NixOS in a VPS with some basic services and have it managed with OpenTofu and for that it works great, but when I migrate my main setup I think I'm going to do a slightly different setup that's still Nix-managed but uses k3s on top of VMs instead of just using NixOS services on the host.

I mostly use NixOS on my laptop right now and really like it, but I might start putting everything in VMs there also, and if that works well use the same configuration between my laptop and server for that.

S following the numbers means “slim”, so T14s is the slim version of the T14.

. Fedora touched me in places they don’t even have on the doll

;D That's going in my lexicon. Moreover, I feel duly warned; thanks for that.

I can’t get over that they named a CLI tool “nasty-top”. As a fellow faggot, I feel heard in the weirdest way.

Oh, thanks! Now I see how the rabbity the hole is! NixOS alone would make it pretty deep …

Fedora always felt slower no matter what I did with it. Selinux sent me to therapy. Cockpit always felt incomplete. Some updates require me to box with fedora to get it to boot again because selinux had an opinion.

Fedora touched me in places they don’t even have on the doll.

https://github.com/nasty-project/nasty

Do you mind sharing the rabbit hole? I tried to search NASty too, but it looks like the result is mostly porno or other irrelevant shit.

What's wrong with regular linux-hardened?

This is the first I've heard of NASty. Thanks for the new rabbit hole!

Genuine question: what's obnoxious about Fedora? TIA

people don't kill, guns do it vibes

If you have only one GPU you cant*. If you have two, you can make each its own seat.

*xvfb to create a second seat, make a headless session, stream it to a cheap weak thing connected to that other monitor. Cheaper than a second GPU.

I hear ya cluckin', big chicken. Apple really is an awful company.

Sort of. I run arch btw, and I have had zero issues with anything except zfs.