I brought a .ch (swiss, worked for my name) domain and have only ever had a small handful of bad sites that "validate" via checking for .com.
I would say if you're going to make it a lifetime domain then perhaps something that works in a personal and professional setting might be worth considering.
I would say that .ch is not an uncommon tld at all, it is the national tld of a country and it has existed for decades. I also think that the issue you had with forms requiring .com must have been an amateur made website because I can't imagine someone who develops for a living doing that type of mistake.
Because .COM is administered by a major US player in the military industrial complex, it's the de-facto US TLD. By choosing a dotcom you're signalling your commitment to play ball with US policy. This is why Rubmaps switched to .CH around the time of FOSTA-SESTA.
Yes the fact that you don't use your country's tld is a uniquely USA thing. I lived in Italy, UK, Australia, Brazil, Thailand and Indonesia, in all those places the national tld (e.g. ".it" in Italy) is the most commonly used. Even American services usually have a localised version with that tld, e.g. google.it; Some American email providers offer local tlds as well, e.g. I used to have [username]@hotmail.it
I'm curious about the situation in the UK. They don't seem to use ".uk", but rather ".co.uk". I bought a couple ".uk" domains because they were cheaper than all the other weird ones like .club, .today, etc. I couldn't figure out why a well-known place like the UK would have deeply discounted TLD's.
Many countries mainly use second level tlds, e.g. co.uk, gov.uk, co.th, com.au, .com.my, etc. because the registry of that country decided to make those available to the public, and the first level alone is not.
In some cases the first level tld subsequently became available to the public - for example in 2022 .au has become available, but the original second levels, e.g. .com.au or .gov.au remain more popular because the public is more familiar with it.
.CH and .LI should be the first pick if you're buying in long term. .COM etc. are Verisign Corp (essentially US Gov) names and you're screwed if there's a global conflict down the line and want to be treated neutrally. I'm not tying myself to the future Montenegrin (.ME) administration or god forbid some fly-by-night meme gTLD run out of Hong Kong that goes bankrupt in two years and defaults on their ICANN payments, getting wiped from the root zone.
It won't come to that, there's an established process for transferring gTLDs to other registries. Every registry is required to provide a full backup of their domain data to ICANN every couple of weeks or so, I don't remember the exact period. You might get hit by significantly increased renewal fees, though.
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ThinkPads every day of the week. I have a T430 that I have owned for about 6 years and a new P52 which is my daily work machine. Both running Linux with zero issues.
I liked the comment below describing Hotels (Mac) Vs home (ThinkPads). It's true that if you can be bothered to tweak and install some stuff then you end up with something of your own. Your way.
Never used Macs as old enough to remember the "no one got sacked for buying IBM" saying and it's true even if it is now Lenovo.
I had a MacBook Pro daily driver, and had the same concerns as the poster.
I'm now running a Yoga x390. It was the most I've ever spent on a laptop, and it was worth every penny. It's the perfect size, weight, battery life, performance combination, and is an absolute treat to use.
I don't know... I own a 2013 MBP and also use a Thinkpad P52s for work, and I really hope there's a better competitor than the Thinkpads.
The Thinkpad feels cheap and poorly built compared to the MBP. The plastic creaks and it feels like it's going to fall apart when I carry it with one hand. The trackpad isn't nearly as good, and I had to dig into the X11 configuration to make it work reasonably. I've only had it for 10 months, and I'm already worried that the USB-C plug may be breaking.
Meanwhile, the MBP has sustained 6 years of abuse and still feels solid and works great.
As far as specs go, the Thinkpad is fine, but I'd be sad if I had to buy one with my own money.
"Never used macs" maybe you should try them. I'm still using a 2013 MBP, only issue is that I had to finally replace the battery about a year ago.
MacBooks used to be good. Can you still buy a 6 year old thinkpad?
AFAIK there's even plenty of people who order components from newer thinkpads in order to retrofit them to older thinkpad's chasis, either as a way to upgrade their own machine or just to assemble a better laptop (like in most things in this industry, older interfaces and form factors are very often better).
I got bit by this bug. It’s amazing what $200 will get you! I also have a mid-2012 MBP that’s going strong. The advantage of thinkpads from that era is that their parts are generally easier to replace. The keyboards of that generation of laptop are just something else :)
I got an X260 on Ebay for ~EUR220 to replace an MBP whose screen went bad. The screen and touchpad are no match for the MBP, but it sparks joy in a way the MBP never did.
There are a ton of thinkpad t440p’s floating around from that era. They have upgradable everything (even a socketed cpu). You can buy a low-end model for €150 and soup it up to perform similar to current gen laptops.
I have a T480s from work and it has two annoying issues for me. The first is that the cursor doesn't always disappear when typing. That is probably a Windows/browser issue.
The hardware issue is the right side of the touchpad seems to be setup as a right click space. I want one finger left click no matter where I am on the touch pad and two finger right click. Reaching to the left side of the touchpad to click is super annoying and I often accidentally drag a tan instead of clicking on it.
Posting that in hopes someone knows a way to make the touchpad just one big space.
+1 to ThinkPad, good quality, great for Linux, and TrackPoint which is the vim of mice (no moving off the home row).
(Pair the ThinkPad with a Linux desktop using an external USB "ThinkPad-style" keyboard, and you've got TrackPoints + exactly the same keyboard layout (and OS layout/key bindings, etc) across laptop and desktop.)
Thanks but Pop_OS also doesn't help here.
They did something different for the T490. My colleague has a T480 and that works fine. T490 also doesn't have a BIOS/UEFI option to disable the NVidia (again there's forum threads requesting that as well on the Lenovo forums).
The problem is that the NVidia card never enters its high power saving states even when it's disabled.
Thirded. I got mine 1.5 years ago and I love it as much as the first day I got it.
The T480 running Ubuntu really hit a sweet spot for me. I could get 32GB of memory (double the memory of other developer laptop options) and it has hot-swappable batteries for extended coding sessions off plug. I'm not a huge fan of dongles either, so the built-in ports (ethernet, HDMI, MicroSD card slot, etc.) were nice.
Triggers for me are dehydration, tiredness, stress and oo much bad food. I found that eating meat and dairy also had a massive effect on me and led to me giving them up. I have been more or less Vegan since figuring that out 20 odd years ago.
Same--I generalized it as basically my body is vindictive about treating it badly. Except I'm better off with meat and dairy. And especially cheese. I have experimented with vegetarianism, but only for my fussiness about my feelings for helpless animals.
I dumped meat and dairy as I was also finding the more of that I ate the more time I spent on the toilet. Then you start to read up on what you're actually eating and being an animal lover it all just added up for me.
I should have added that I have also found exercise really helps me as well. High cardio if I feel I could be getting an attack coming usually see's it off.
There are no indications that MSG actually is bad for you (including by inducing headaches) in the amounts that it is normally used. Even 2g (this is a lot) is no problem when consumed with food. If you know otherwise, I'd love to read your sources.
It's not hard to install Arch but it takes slightly more effort than many of the mainstream distro's. The benefit is a powerful, fully customisable distro. It's documentation and package repo's are best of the best.
Antergos makes it quick (why I sometimes use it) to install and slightly easier for completely new users.
I have been on Arch based distro's for about 10 years and I wouldn't change. I have regularly reviewed other distro's but they all have things that "just work" in Arch but don't for them.
I generally use it on Thinkpad laptops and power settings and back lights (etc) all just work.
I kcouldn't get Antergos to work properly on my XPS 15 9560 so I had to go with Manjaro with i3. The battery life is amazing. 8 hours with the GPU disabled vs 4 on Ubuntu 16.04.
Arch or Antergos. I couldn't go back to a non rolling release OS.
Most of the time these days I use the Antergos installer and clone my dotfiles but my personal laptop (T430) still runs Arch.
I recently tried a number of distro's including Ubuntu, Fedora and Suse and while they were all great in their own way they make life too difficult. Why have more than one package manager or way to install software? Yast is still horrific. The lack of rolling release and single package manager has limited Linux on the desktop. While it's not a problem for most Linux users it has stunted everyday users.
I would say if you're going to make it a lifetime domain then perhaps something that works in a personal and professional setting might be worth considering.