Thank you for calling this kind of behaviour out, but hopefully you can see I was mimicking OP’s “I don’t need it” self-convincing speech, by being his “angel on the shoulder”. It was done in a joking manner, and I apologise to any one who interpreted it in another way.

Great! Go for it then.

I don’t know what’s LoRa though, but can’t you just plug an Arduino board to the computer’s USB port and get a bunch of GPIOs? It’s cheap. It’s durable.

No. You don’t need it.

Just get a used ThinkPad for work, and whichever handheld game console if you want to play while on a trip.

Run Linux on ThinkPad. It’s open source too.

Best in what perspective? There are FLAC and Opus.

Agreed. In the old days everyone knows what to do with a zip of MP3 files. These modern day “technology” has been making people dumb. It sucks.

What’s wrong with emailing them an m3u8 file?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

This shit is thirty years old.

I think TeX is the right way.

Still not an issue. Just throw out all modern web frameworks and stick to content-focused HTML. You can even do plaintext with unclickable links.

Why did you get down voted? Back then US nuked Japan to stop the war. Why not now? It’s a fair game.

Fortunate for me, Posteo is a pair service so that their employees can live a good life by working. I get their service. I pay. I don’t like someone else paying for me then show me ads or sell my data.

The next time you encountered a problem, and found the command to fix that problem, call in sick for a week, drill all the way down to the source code level, find out what the root cause was, and what that command does. You can only fix things if you know how it is supposed to work.

What’s the resolution of your monitor?

Well actually this is a very good point. You should have stated this in the post body.

Remove OP first, then two CEOs.

Git gud, pal.

他 isn’t the pronoun for masculine third person. It’s third person, period. Neutral gender if one has to ask.

Traditionally the character used to mean “that” is 彼. Apparently it’s also gender-neutral.

Oh my god. I couldn’t believe people throw that away. When you say e-waste bin I thought of it as some kind of flea market.

Nice find, bro.

If you don’t have a need, do not purchase.

If you have purchased without a need, consider returning or selling it.

A broken laptop can simply be used as a desktop with an external monitor.

Voyager but I don’t think that’s relevant.

I’ve been using RAM and SSD of Chinese brand (Gloway) for three to four years. Consumer grade. No issue so far. No data loss or kernel panic.