Most do. Source: I usually use passwords that long.

Maybe 1 in 10 don’t, and I find that annoying since 32 characters containing only lowercase real words and spaces has several times as much entropy as 8 characters of random mixed case letters, numbers, and symbols.

Killing people in cold blood is not humane no matter how you do it.

If your security relies on a password, you will always be anxious that somebody, somewhere, has somehow figured out what it is and already has access to your bank account.

No I won’t. All my passwords are something like I0!2b6KJ!eA04WiJ&&MFToCQ7CN*4mvb and each is used for only one thing because I’ve been using a password manager for over a decade.

No. Populist movements have been growing worldwide, and most of them have been far-right.

I am opposed to the death penalty, but as far as methods go, firing squad seems more honest than lethal injection. It looks like killing rather than dressing it up like a medical procedure.

Any of the following are likely to work:

• Web search for “[model name] linux” and see if there are any results describing actual experience. A handful mentioning using it with none mentioning compatibility issues is usually good to go.
• Check forums for existing threads. Good options include https://forum.thinkpads.com/ and r/thinkpad. Less populous possibilities are !linux@lemmy.ml and !linux@lemmy.world.
• Make your own post on any of those places and ask about the model and distro you’re interested in.
• Use an LLM-based tool, but check its sources to make sure they say what the LLM claims they say and the author shows signs of knowing what they’re talking about. LLMs are bullshit machines.

I guess then I would add to my advice that people should do a quick check to see whether others are having good results with a given model before purchase. I thought we were past that with Thinkpads.

I’m surprised to read that; I would have expected substandard build quality, not problems with Linux.

Ctrl should be on the key that says “CapsLock”, and for me, it is.

You can swap Ctrl and Fn in the BIOS.

My newer model can kernel panic as well as any model!

I had a T470 previously, and the mechanical build quality and materials of the P14s III are superior.

There’s a reason Linux on a Thinkpad is a meme.

You haven’t said much concrete about your requirements, use case, or budget, so I don’t have a recommendation much beyond whatever Thinkpad meets your requirements. The “serious” models in the T, P, and X series tend to be preferable to the others.

I love mine!

I’m used to people trusting friends and family members who they know are tech experts. That’s a really weird reaction that seems disrespectful toward your knowledge and judgment; you weren’t wrong to be mad.

Similar situation, except involving oldies (70+).

Every 70+ family member I have asked to install and use Signal has done so without any assistance or instructions beyond the name of the app to install. It’s one of the easiest tasks in modern information technology.

It always surprises me when anyone resists. It’s 45 seconds worth of effort to install and activate it, and anybody who knows me knows I’m not going to recommend software that will harm them.

Accessible language mostly sounds like a good idea, but what I imagine happening here is opponents of any ballot measure will attempt to use this restriction to challenge it procedurally rather than on its merits.

ActivityPub doesn’t work that way, but you can follow public Mastodon accounts using RSS.

I couldn’t care less about professional golf. Something as simple as an evening or morning walk with a friend depends on other peoples’ work schedules. Which time of day you want to take that walk might shape which side of the debate you’re on.

I slightly prefer DST, but my main position is no clock changes. Both the spring and fall changes are associated with spikes in car crashes and health emergencies.

I hate to agree with Trump about anything, but events have to be planned around the schedules of prospective attendees. DST exists because it causes most peoples’ schedules to be adjusted, and proponents of both abolition and permanence are seeking to do just that.

Trump is an asshole, but we should adopt permanent something. I don’t care if it’s DST or standard time as long as we stop changing the clocks.

The article notes people in northern states tend to be more opposed to permanent DST. It seems odd to me nobody has seriously proposed splitting time zones north/south, i.e. New York would be on Eastern Standard Time, and Florida would be on Atlantic Standard Time - an hour later, equivalent to Eastern Daylight Time.

Tried it. Maybe got the timing wrong.