I live in a large metropolitan area in the US and my kids have never used ChromeOS. Our school district issues iPads for elementary school and middle school and beyond receive Windows laptops. Our public library is 100% Windows with the exception of the makerspace which has a few imacs scattered around. Their Windows computers re-image themselves after every use so securing them is really not much of an issue.
Yeah, it could be worse. I used to work with a guy who shared a name with some random executive that went on a racist tirade that went public. He had to lock down his social media because of all of the death threats.
"No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks." ~Michael Bolton - Office Space
(Actually this athlete doesn't suck. He seems like a genuinely good dude.)
When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push himself up. He pushes the world down.
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep…he waits.
That right there is about the only good part of sharing a name with a celebrity. You absolutely cannot Google me. I am a ghost online. No Facebook or any non-anonymous social media. Even if you search for my name + my city you'll get results about this athlete because he has made numerous appearances here
At those prices you're really better off getting a lower end NUC format computer which can be found for under $100 USD. Raspberry Pi was cool and innovative when it was new but those days are long gone.
I've bought a couple of cheap Beelink machines and I've been really happy with them so far.
I remember Reddit. It's a shame what happened there. 🤷♂️
We never use each other's first names in normal conversation. If one of us were to address the other with our actual name it would immediately set off an internal alarm.
"You know, there’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don’t all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.”
~Silent Bob
Cryptocurrency
I was at CompUSA back in the 90s and there was a Red Hat box with a manual in the clearance bin. I think it was Red Hat 4. I took it home and installed it on an old computer. I mainly used it as a server for testing Perl scripts for my own websites but I did use it as a desktop some.
I was a Windows N/T and Novell Netware administrator at the time and the company I worked for needed a “Linux guy”. Most people had barely heard of Linux so I became the de facto Linux admin. I ended up managing an Apache server and writing what was really just an API that ran under mod_perl. It returned structured text like modern APIs (JSON wasn’t a thing yet).
Now almost 30 years later and I still love Linux. Linux powers my life. I run my own email and web servers. I self-host lots of stuff. I’m not a big fan of desktop Linux but I work on Linux servers all day long. I have no desire to come home and fuck with my workstations.