Incel script kiddie/windows peasant vs virgin hipster vs CHAD HACKER

incel "windows peasant / script kiddie":
- Uses windows 10 and visual studio
- only develops shitty proprietary web apps
- thinks cmd is actually a hacker tool
- doesn't know what POSIX is
- only linux distributions he know are ubuntu and kali because "linux = haxx0rs XD"
- probably a wagie cuck
- uses spotify and electron apps without even realising how shitty nodejs is.
- uses chrome, or brave / vivaldi / opera if he's particularly paranoid and wants to "protect his privacy" (lol)
- owned by NSA and corporations on a daily basis
- only shell commands he knows are cd and exit
- retard manchild who plays videogames the whole day when not trying to develop a webapp or a shitty unity game

Virgin "tech hipster":
- Uses an overpriced macbook and a botnet-tier iphone
- far-left supporter, soyboy and male feminist cuck
- codes in atom or visual studio code, thinks web "apps" are actually something innovative
- wastes his time using facebook, twitter and instagram
- model citizen who hangs out at starbucks all day
- thinks any unix-like system is good
- language repretoire limited to very high-level dynamic languages like javascript, python and ruby
- uses shitty proprietary apps like chrome, itunes and discord
- always has to have the latest and most expensive gadget in order to feel like his existence is justified

CHAD ACTUAL HACKER:
- exclusively uses thinkpads and enhanced old laptops running GNU/Linux
- capable of taking over the world with a fucking raspberry pi if he wanted to
- C, shell scripts, make and python is all you need.
- May learn python and three different kinds of assembler if he wants to be chadder
- codes in vim, geany or emacs
- hates facebook, twitter and botnet-tier social network shit. Exclusively uses imageboards, IRC and/or XMPP to hang out with other chad hackers
- mocks society, NSA and corporations on a daily basis
- anarchist, but he doesn't care about political ideologies.
- made three different viruses to piss off the incel windows peasant
- has an ungoogled smartphone and he exclusively installs apps from f-droid
- "use palemoon with uMatrix bro"
- cmus is the only music player he needs
- has enough monero to survive the next banking panic a hundred times over

>>18
Last Thinkpad I used was an IBM 600. It was a beast and Fritz was already able to beat the shit out of any chess player (except for a few Grandmasters) on this machine. It was rated around 2500 elo, if I remember. I mainly used it for chess games analysis as you probably guessed.
I recently bought a new model (T480, not the newest) without a fingerprint reader as it was a configuration option. I wasn't convinced about the other computers I checked: Dell, HP and System76. The Lenovo was the perfect good-enough fit for my sub-$1000 budget and I find it quite upgradable (RAM, SSD, Wifi card, screen, batteries, heatsink, bezel, keyboard ... there are aftermarket parts for everything, even changing the motherboard shouldn't be hard 10 years from now given the shear number of sales)

I can't do anything about Intel's shenaningans. A Dell would have had the same problems. I'm not even sure a librebooted T400s is so much better security-wise. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/266884-intel-wont-patch-older-cpus-to-resolve-spectre-flaws

The cases are flimsy and crack, the touchpad is unusable on almost every model now

That sucks. I guess I'll just have to take care of it. I'm not much of a touchpad user anyway.

>>20

And obviously a Chinese company pushing so hard to be able to harvest everyone's fingerprints should worry you in itself.

As said I didn't felt pushed as it was a configuration option that I removed. Alright, it was the default option. I wouldn't trust American companies either and I'm not willing to stop using a computer. There are always trade-offs for every decision you make.