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Marx's theory of alienation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

Thinkpads are great, the problem is the price, specially overseas because of the exchange in countries which currency value have lowered in comparison to the dollar. Any Thinkpad was barely affordable and this situation became worse. A X1 Carbon is a dream, but it costs 5-7 times more than a low cost laptop (and low quality as well). A T490 is 3-4 times more expensive than a low cost laptop.

I'm typing this comment in my lovely T440, but my next laptop will probably not be a Thinkpad. They are great, but having one doesn't payoff nowadays (YMMV).

Prefer one sponsored by a very ethical company that really worries about your privacy like Google or Facebook?

As if the lack of prosperity in these countries were because supposed lack of capitalism...

Chile? Just look how people are satisfied with their system nowadays... Behind seeming positive macroeconomic numbers, there is a very unequal society. Chile is the most unequal society among all OECD members. The riots that happen there right now are not against any socialism, but against the liberal fail. They followed strict liberal rules since Pinochet dictatorship, and that is what it became.

> Almost nobody wants to overthrow capitalism. People want to make adjustments to the current form of it to address concerns.

You are right, and that is exactly the problem, since it is something history proved impossible to be reformed.

EDIT: reforming capitalism is a long term desire from part of the humankind. It is not a new idea and has yield very long discussions [1]. So, the big idea today is indeed how to overthrow it in favour of another form of social organization.

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revol...

What you mean by "west"? Latin America (where I live), all the Africa and some poor european countries are "west" and those are not very good examples of prosperity.

Even in "western" rich countries there is a lot of growing unequality. The capitalism is falling by itself.

The best book on x86 Assembly for beginners ever: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/

This is like: you can double the number of songs you listen if you fast-forward the player 2x!

China is Communist? Apple, Nike, Foxconn... agree with that?

I'm a few surprised nobody have mentioned UlixOS [1]. I'm reading their book, it is just great on many aspects, although it rushes to explain other things that should be detailed a bit more. The chapter about paging is very explicative too.

[1] http://ulixos.org/

Few people here have referred to the /tmp directory. This is essential in my workflow. I put a lot of things there (this is also my Downloads folder) and when the computer reboots, its clean again!

One of the computers I use stay turned on for long times, so I have /tmp/t and a cronjob that cleans all files older than 1 day in this directory:

    # Remove all files in /tmp/t older than 1440 min (one day)
    */10 * * * * find /tmp/t -cmin +1440 -delete > /tmp/.find-delete-1440.log 2>&1

Besides that, I have a lot of bunches in $HOME. dot.files, dot.vim, dot.mutt, etc., are all in private git repositories and I have a "~/s" directory I keep synchronized among different machines with rsync (I don't trust Google nor Dropbox). I was thinking about starting using Syncthing [1], though.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

I'm not a web developer but the times I tried to do some web development I found all the things cool kids talked about overly complicated and fell back to simple things like simple scripts on the server side and simple javascript on the client side or even semi dynamic/static webpages.

I always found interesting how the Tcl community solve things, using simple and powerful Tcl metaprogramming features (see beautiful examples on wiki.tcl.tk).

I've done a couple of small business solutions in Tcl/Tk as desktop applications. Now I feel more encouraged to try to develop new ones for the web :-)

This is a nice and simple! Usually I keep a logbook separated for each project but it looks more like a diary where I record failed approaches and new tries to solve a problem.

For more structured documentation, I keep separated text files for each solution that I can easily find if I need it later.

EDIT: Also, scratching your plan with pencil and paper before implementing it helps a lot.