Lenovo ThinkPads work very nicely with Linux, and there’s a large second-hand market. The T and X series are especially great I find.

The usual advice about avoiding soldered RAM holds in general, but right now used laptops are being bought just for stripping RAM. So I think putting up with soldered RAM in second hand devices (I’d go for at least 32G) can be a smart move because it may be a better deal (and often a smaller form factor).

Have you tried

Outline?

I recently set it up and I’m very impressed.

This is not difficult to achieve at all with tools like sed or awk. But unless you provide a concrete example input file or files, all we can do is point to those tools.

The problem is that /-o will also match something like --my-irrelevant-option.

Word boundaries match the end (or the beginning) of the word.

How exactly to do it depends on the regex library, my less is built with PCRE2 therefore I can do /-o\b.

Seems like the router doesn’t like how the headers are passed on. You could try:

login.router.lan {
    reverse_proxy 192.168.1.1:80 {
        header_up Host {upstream_hostport}
    }
}

https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/reverse_proxy#headers

If you’re not averse to CLI and some tinkering, i think khal may suit your needs.

I think Gnome + Flatpak is a great setup for GUI only. Fedora is annoying to set up with nonfree drivers and codecs, otherwise it’s a great choice for this.

(Also, don’t try convert your friends, just wait until they come to you and ask for help installing Linux.)

Interesting, seems like a bug in the client.

I disagree, it’s a fitting name, and I don’t have to type it unless I want to link to it.

Awesome, that’s exciting news!

(A good way to link to communities is like this: [email protected] - that way I can click and subscribe while staying logged in.)

If I saw that folder name while using a friend’s machine I would know not to click on it to respect their privacy.

I didn’t read but the formatting is 🔥

Oh I’m sure it runs perfectly fine in a container, it’s just not my preferred setup.

Last time I checked, radicale and baikal were the sensible options. I went with radicale, no regrets, but not in a container.

Same for me. I distro-hopped for about 20 years with OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Fedora being the most memorable desktop setups for me. While all that was a valuable experience, NixOS feels like graduation.

For the Nix-curious: I wish someone would have told me not to bother with the classic config and build a flake-based system immediately. They’re “experimental” in name only, very stable and super useful in practice.

I totally understand where you’re coming from, and I’m pessimistic that any flavor of Linux will be an acceptable experience for the person you’re describing. Something like Silverblue may be least obstrusive, but compatibility will still be a prominent problem.

Alternatively, you could show them surface level cool stuff that’s easier to do with Linux. Like blocking all ads, running your own Minecraft server, downloading YouTube videos, building your own PC with cheap parts (and maybe even pirating movies and TV shows, depending on your own practices and relationship to that person). There’s a lot to love about Linux even if you don’t care about privacy and open software as abstract values.

The way I usually start teaching using the console to my (very much non-tech) students is set up a safe container and then let them type whatever, invariably generating a lot of error messages. Then I challenge them to generate different error messages, “gotta catch em all” style. Then we talk about the error messages and what they might mean. After this exercise they usually get the basic idea of command – response, what to look out for and how to compose valid commands.

I don’t know of such an alternative. A quick solution would be to use something like GeoNotes to take geolocated notes.

As far as a self-hosted solution goes, I’d just like to point out that you wouldn’t need a self-hosted database of places. You could query Ouverture (or Google, OSM, etc.) for places near you, and you’d just need to store the check-in on your server with a basic API. This is an interesting problem, and not super hard to implement.

This sounds like a good idea, but I think the problem here is that a lot of popular software runs great on Linux but is very clunky and ugly on other systems (looking at you, LibreOffice). So keep that in mind if you try out FOSS on Windows as a sneak peek.

Navigation on Android: Osmand lets you download and cache OSM data so you can use it offline. Cache is unlimited if you download Osmand via F-Droid.