Great battery life and linux unfortunately are a hard task and linux support is often spotty for consumer devices.

Sticking to used business hardware is usually a good start, but you should check for compability issues nonetheless.

Used t490 / t480. Can you elaborate on the “heavy limited by space”?

Wenn es um Sicherheit geht sind Bonds sicherlich auch nicht verkehrt. Setzt aber natürlich Planbarkeit beim Abrufzeitpunkt voraus.

Imho sind politisch Desinteressierte ein wichtiger Faktor für eine funktionierende Demokratie. Wären alle Menschen polarisierende Idealisten wäre das System kompromissunfähig.

No I’m not catastrophising.

2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all

Yeah, I don’t know about that.

Dann lass die Nudeln doch weg.

Yes, as the semantic of words is context dependent.

I can’t quite figure out what would be the use cases where bcache would excel, except for hdds without cache or systems with very limited ram. Can you help me out with that?

That’s a bad comparison. Without a lock you can just open the door from the outside.

You’re having way too many thoughts about this. I’ll give you a simple choice: It’s either Xubuntu or Linux Mint.

Simply choose by which one looks better to you. Done.

In a year you can look back at your post and decide again if there is anything you want to change or you’re in dire need of a Linux hobby and Gentoo is all you’ve ever been looking for.

That’s a horrible recommendation!

Der leichte Anstieg am Ende sind die Bots?