No really, I’ve spent the last few days in idle time looking at second-hand ThinkPads.

I’m thinking of getting an older X series or Carbon and putting #NetBSD on it as a lower distraction writing tool.

@rubenerd On the basis of this suggestion (and particularly the potential for a long battery life), I got myself an x270, which I'm reasonably happy with: https://www.coreystephan.com/openbsd-thinkpad/
OpenBSD 7.4 on a ThinkPad X270 (plus my Theological Dotfiles) for Scholarly Work – Corey Stephan, Ph.D.

@guytf This is an amazing post, thank you! There's enough here for me to potentially try OpenBSD as well.