Bought ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 with AMD Ryzen 7 4700U for $170. Came in when I was getting ready for work so I had to take it work with me play play with it 
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thats a good choice 
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I am happy with it as long as there is no Windows flag on my Meta key.
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Nice, I might get one of these Thinkpads and put EOS on it so I could bring it around with me.
I do have Fedora installed on my M2 Mac but obviously there is not much I can do with it, being aarch64 and all…
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Great fan! I have it on my 140mm AIO. Makes the PC nearly silent.
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So this is a complete pc as well as a storage medium? I see it has 2 nvme slots and 4 bays for HD? Did you get the Ryzen version? How are you going to set this up? EOS on an nvme drive? Using the HD’s for backup?
Yeah, it is a small PC with a mobile chipset and CPU.
Yes. It is also has a Wi-Fi nvme slot which I installed a small SSD on for the OS.
Yes. Ryzen 7 5825u.
I installed the OS on a 256GB nvme drive which is on an adapter connected to the Wi-Fi slot. I put the 4 18TB HHDs from my Synology into it. I am also going to put two nvme drives in a mirror. I added 64GB of RAM.
I am installing TrueNAS Scale on it. It is a specialized version of Linux for NAS/Container use. It is managed entirely via a Web UI so it can run headless. It will be able to serve as a NAS, a container host and a VM host.
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Wow. Don’t have any experience using a NAS but am interested as i have a friend/neighbor who is a graphic artist for gaming company and also a professional photographer. He is using Windows but has all his work stuff and photo images which he has many thousand’s of on the same computer on different drives i think? He’s interested in having a proper back up solution for this. He told me he was waiting for Sinology to come out with something new. Not sure that’s going to happen. Plus they are expensive.
Synology barely ever comes out with new products for the consumer space. They often have 7+ year life cycles on their products. I wanted a software solution so I could have more control.
I compared at a variety of software options and selected TrueNAS.
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Lenovo Dvd burner, seller commented it woundt work with a printer cable and that would be necessary an arduino cable, i tried the arduino cable and did not work, i happened to have a cable from a capture card from avermedia and it worked just fine for it
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Bought a new laptop a month ago, specifically chose one without windows installed (not inclined to give them away money for their ****, which I’m not going to use anyway ever)
Came home and immediately put on it our favourite distro
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According to David Graeber, you’re in debt now. But hopefully not for the next 5000 years
I finally retired the old cheapo 24" FullHD Monitor which had an poor & uneven backlighting in it’s corners.
Choose an 34" UWQHD with 100 Hz refresh rate as well as an built-in KVM as well as picture in picture modes & USB-C support. VA Panel instead of IPS. Dell model S3423DWC, which was on black friday sale. Placed the order the day before yesterday. And it arrived as of today.
Initially I didn’t really wanted an curved monitor, but this one has a rather large radius of 1.8 meter.
Quite nice up so far. But I have to get used to that curvature and that much screen space
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