There totally is - https://lemmy.ml/c/programmerhumor.

Let’s see. At work it’s a mix between apache (I’m slowly replacing with nginx as services are migrated) and aws’s alb ingress controller (while I’m not a fan, it lets me use acm certs).

At home it’s all nginx.

Let’s see.

• A meda stack (plex/jellyfin, sonarr/radarr, sabnzb, etc).
• an instance of foundryvtt
• a local mirror of 5e.tools
• a “tilt pi” ( Bluetooth hydrometer that supports webhooks/apis)
• ad (I need to decom this and just use aad)
• some raspberry pi’s running octoprint.
• pihole.
• “general networking stuff” (wire guard, openvpn, network monitoring, etc)
• nginx as a reverse proxy.

I’m sure I’m missing stuff but that’s a basic list.

Iconiq 5. I can honestly say I really enjoy it (and I’m not a car person).

Interesting fact: I just got a new ev (so a battery hooked up to a computer with wheels) - and it has buttons! It also has dials for sound and climate.

Now to be fair it also takes interacting with a touchscreen to turn on the heated seats, but I’d say it’s progress in the right direction.

I’d not say a flat circle.

Mark Twain has this wonderful quote - “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.”

Assuming the soc’s are compatible you can upgrade down the road (I’ve not looked). Otherwise - its going to depend on how much raw horsepower you need day to day (I’m also not convinced there is much change between modern Intel generations).

I can’t help you on the 2-in-1 side of things. But if your ok with the form factor of a standard laptop look into framework. I’ll not roll them out for my windows/linux endpoints at work (poor corporate warranty support) but I personally use one and love it.

As someone in IT I have mixed feeling about this. Linux machines make great servers, ok workstations, and God awful corporate endpoints. Say what you will about Microsoft and windows, when you need to manage policies impacting large number of endpoints, active directory (when configured correctly) is a beast of a solution.

Now if we are talking about someone at home browsing the web? Use whatever gui/os you like. I do agree, more people should try Linux just to be exposed to something different.