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  • Any second-hand business class laptop that fits your budget, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.

    Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they’re still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.

    You’ll have to install Linux yourself, but generally support for older hardware is OK.

    IMPORTANT: make sure the BIOS isn’t locked before buying.


















  • They could already have access to your emails, because… you’re running their OS. They can slip in any code they want and run it with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM-level privileges (comparable to root-level privileges on Linux systems).

    If you run any other OS you’ll also have to trivially trust the makers of that OS with root-level privileges (or comparable).

    (Personally I don’t believe that MS is scanning all your local emails, but they certainly have the technical possibilities to do so very trivially.)