I bet someone has taken the original thinkpad keyboards and put it in a housing to use like an external keyboard, just haven’t looked into it. I have the shinobi which is a mechanical interpretation of the thinkpad keyboard. It’s OK but I prefer the original.

It’s almost like how I spent so many years configuring Arch and tweaking it and now I just use debian.

The Logitech MX Keys keyboards are the answer.

seems like china’s always making a new deal with a new country

I use Debian. The current release has pretty up to date software. It’s super easy to install ( I don’t have as much time to fuck around with my OS as I used to). And it’s stable as fuck.

What a fucking nightmare

They all fuck us. Doesn’t matter what color tie they wear.

There’s a lot of trust involved when using a VPN. Besides accessing things that are region blocked when you use a VPN you’re basically say “Here VPN company, look at all the connection im making” and you just have to hope they’re not logging anything. They might even tell you they’re not logging anything but how can you really know? And what is their intention is to not log anything but they fuck up and don’t implement that correctly?