chosing a PC is a matter of personal preferences, as it's in the name. But it's the year 2025 and there are two hills I'll die on.

1. thou should not buy a mobile PC (that is, tablet or laptop) without LTE/5G built in.
2. thou should not buy any PC without at least two USB4 (or Thunderbolt) ports.

(this is of course unless you're struggling financially and desperately need any PC for work or study)

last week I spent a couple days trying to understand why one of my VMs starts growing like crazy immediately once launched. Only to find out that I increased the diff disk block size to 256 MB a few weeks before that because I was curious about what this setting does.

this week I spent an evening trying to undrstand why my WinRE image alomost triples in size with 3B update compared to 2B. Only to find out that I somehow decided last week that adding the entire Intel NIC driver folder (1 GB) to WinPE was a good idea.

maybe I'm starting to see a trend here.

me then, watching dystopian movies: I wonder how they ever came up to the idea of having international intelligence agencies that do not subordinate to any government and are actually superior to any national agency of any country? What course of events led to this?

me now: oh, this is how.

Gotta use Amtrak while it lasts. Maybe not for long anymore.

See y'all in Portland.

as much as it makes me sad (as a man), women are usually not impressed by “not all men...” arguments. And as much as it upsets me (as a Russian), Ukrainians are usually not thrilled by “not all Russians...” talks.

so, welcome to the club, fellow Americans!

it's not the burden on Canadians to tell a “good American” from a “bad American.” They have all the right in the world to be mad at us these days, and they are.