Why not both?

Go on…

Wait, people can’t visualize the amount of electricity used for something? Oh, right, not everyone is an electrical engineer.

Instructions unclear, goto considered harmful.

While this feels like bait, I’m going to take it. Yes, there is a huge benefit to learning and using a terminal if you use a computer as a tool for creating and working instead of passively consuming entertainment. Organizing and searching files of any sort, building applications, writing without distraction, working with remote devices, and just generally using your computer as a tool instead of a fancy TV are all made easier, faster and more efficient if you can use a terminal. The unix philosophy gives you the ability to do things by stringing together a few commands that you might have to find a specialized program for, if it even exists in GUI land.

That’s not to say the GUI’s aren’t great for a lot of things. They are! But they also lock you into doing things in a few predetermined ways rather than letting you develop the skills and techniques for exploring new spaces.

Fucking steam web helper. I’ll have locked my desktop machine and switched my KVM to my work laptop when suddenly the fans spin up. I switch back over and it’s multiple steam processes each using a full core. WTF?!? I’m looking up how to have the lock screen also ‘kill all -9 steam’ to keep it from happening.

Any used Thinkpad will work well for you, just search eBay with your price cap and screen size.

If I lived in Florida shudder or really anywhere with programs like this, I’d be damn tempted to start a pagan school. “Today kids, to finish our ecology section we will be planting a ring of oak trees, and then chanting for their blessing. Health class will have a discussion of the latest research on the impacts of meditation, art will be painting a set of symbols from your tradition. Math will be the next section on trigonometry.”

Vampires are classically allegories about scary foreigners spreading diseases and sexual immorality. See Stoker’s Dracula and Le Fanu’s Carmilla for the Ur-examples. There is, however, a really good modern reading of Dracula as healthy queer polyamory vs toxic polygamy. And Carmella is the inspiration for many of the canonical works of lesbian literature.

I’m pretty surprised they haven’t just rolled over, TBH.

The ciiiiiirclllee of depressed men.

Huh? Topgrade does that for you.

I think it’s Wil Wheaton.

She’s a keeper!

Or even unscented.

alias up=topgrade 

Oh! Which tablet? And what interface are you using on it?

I really need to check out Carbonyl. How well does it handle very low end machines?

At work I have a laptop, a high end virtual workstation, and then a target machine which is in a different city than I am. I typically have 3 tmux sessions open, one for each machine, each split into a left and a right pane.

On my local session I have Helix open for notes and things on the left and a bash terminal for misc work on the right. On my workstation session I have Helix on the left for coding and a bash session for building on the right. On the target machine session I have the left pane open to bash for starting/stopping the target devices and programs. The right pane is following logs.

For my personal setup, I have an e-waste Thinkpad often in a similar style except that instead of a virtual workstation it’s my personal desktop that I connect to for large builds. I use it to write, do some hobby coding, 3D printing, chat with friends over Matrix and Discord, plan gaming sessions, play music, etc.

Edit: Added links

Discovery happens well before the jury is seated.