Welcome to the USA: Any improvement thats honest about what it does will be rejected. Instead we will accept obvious lies

Welcome to the USA: YOU are immune to propaganda, anyone who disagrees has fallen for propaganda

Old thinkpads are the way to go if you want a full libre kernal with coreboot, but I assume you mean foss userspace programs lol

For a desktop look at AMD am4 or higher/6th gen intel cpus or higher, that should enough to get you started (I used a 6th gen intel laptop for 90% of my art, gamedev, and 3d rendering, before I bought a PC and old tablet in 2024). If you got the money for a GPU, go AMD as they have much better support on linux. Even a cheap rx460 is more than enough to make basic 3d games

That kinda rig depending on where you live should run you $400 max. Its enough to get you into the scene and by the time your pushing that hardware to the limit your have enough experience to know what to upgrade

Me with canvas pants specifically. Always thought I hated anything but cotton sweats, but they suck to work in. Jeans are either so elastic they don’t feel protective, or they feel protective at the cost of feeling restrictive (The good jeans are ridiculously expensive). Canvas work pants feel sturdy and they don’t limit movement. Plus they wash out super easily

Harbor freight never stops winning <3

I got a on a train cart for some reason with some random dude and a group of girls were already on it playing video games. They obviously did not want us there so the dude broke out some kinda console (I think it changed depending on the game we were playing) and we all played video games. Twords the end of the dream I ended up playing minecraft with one of the girls but it was like xbox 360 console minecraft

A nice change of pace from the normal “your back in your childhood home being abused but its everyone you know currently instead”