My favorite distro, I use it exclusively for the last 4 year. I have Debian Testing on my laptop (T14), workstation, Pi4. Works great. Meanwhile I've been trying Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, but Debian is the best.
I disagree with the idea. I run regularly, usually 40K per week, I tend to run 3 or 4 times per week. The body needs regeneration, muscle/tendons microdamages need time to heal, depleted reserve of glycogen needs time to restore. The risk of injuries will be higher. Without resting intervals stamina goes down, so consecutive runs will not be as strenuous as should be to build better endurance.
Seems that the UK market is not big enough. In China Apple had no problems with ceding control of their local servers to the Chinese government [1]. Not to mention of using forced labor (mostly Uyghurs, against which China is committing acts of genocide [2]). So, Apple and human rights my ass!
I had a brief and rather complicated affair with Emacs some years ago. I tried Magit then. It was ok(ish), but could not understood what all the fuss about. Sublime Merge is so much better -- blazing fast and designed so well. Perhaps I'm not objective here, since I'm also a die-hard fan of Sublime Text -- the best editor for writing research notes, papers, prose, and code :)
I've been using Tutanota since 2019. Very good, constantly improved product. Inexpensive. Solid security. Open source. I keep waiting for their drive and note-taking apps.
Being a long-lasting supporter of open source software, I wholeheartedly agree with you. There are many commercial software masterpieces (Sublime Text, Bitwig, Houdini among others) that would never (or at least in the foreseeable future) achieve that level of perfection without commercial support of the developers, allowing them to focus on their product.
While I'd like the ST to become open source (although I doubt it would improve the program significantly), it should keep its commercial license. I'll happily renew when my v3 license expires.
It can't be MS-free. It's more than enough for me. Besides, ST is the best text/coding editor I've ever used, and I've been using quite a lot of these.
Been using urxvt for many years, this year I replaced it with kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/), will stay probably for as many years as urxvt :)
For many years ST is my daily driver for writing notes, research papers (in Markdown), zsh scripts and coding in Julia. ST (plus Sublime Merge) is just.. sublime :) I've tried vim, nvim, been a hardcore emacs user for half a year and I always return to ST.
Lenovo T14 (Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U) with RAM expanded to 24 GB, running Debian Testing. Works like a charm. Previously I had MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, I prefer T14+Linux to both of them.
From an ex-Emacs/nvim and happy SublimeText user. Don't switch. Both (vim in particular) will eat a lot of your time to master and (Emacs in particular) to tweak. Ultimately, neither of these made me more productive. IMO there are so many better ways of spending the time :)
Quite a few (if any), I'm afraid. So few that I would not suggest any reasonable examples. Performance in the majority of human activities is rapidly getting so upscale that you need both to be exceptionally gifted (both mentally and physically) and begin no later than other competitors in the field. Also, two issues come to my mind: 1) Why do you need to compete at the world level? and 2) It's somewhat worrying if one is in 30s and still looking for their hobbies/skills to pick.
I'm in the neuroscience (mostly EEG analysis), so my experience may not fit into economics field. I went from MATLAB only (and Stata for statistical analysis), through R (liked it a lot) and Python, to Julia-only data processing and analysis pipeline (rarely calling R for some required functions). To me Julia is the future of scientific computing, especially for current and ex MATLAB users.
I've been running /e/ OS on Fairphone 3+ for the last 2 years or so. My general experience is very good, the only serious downside is that I cannot purchase a premium license for Locus Map (which has to be purchased via Google app store).