80 – Man on a (Failed) Mission

So, as I said, I was in India, right? And went to, it was in Bangalore, you know, Silicon Valley of India and all that sort of jazz.

Anyway, living at my brother-in-law's and he works from home now.

He's a doctor, but he works from home.

He does like investigation reporting, you know, ECGs, chest x-rays, stuff like that.

And he was like, he had his laptop out and he was on it.

And I went, wait a minute, is that Ubuntu you're running there? And he went, yeah, you know, all of our, uh, our company, all of our stuff runs on Ubuntu.

And this is the laptop that the company gave me, which is an Ubuntu 2404.

Um, and, uh, you know, yeah, because, you know, and he went to the main thing he came down to was cost.

I think, you know, the fact that you could obviously get it for free and the fact that you could, um, know there wasn't any licensing fees or anything like that to pay and you could have maybe less uh performant hardware you know they didn't have to supply the brand new you know hotness panther lake intel whatever's to do it um And I also think because it seems to be in India, they don't do a huge amount of security maintenance.

I'll be honest with you.

Cause I sat there and I was like, well, I mean, I'm able to do a pseudo app to update on this and download this and do that and that.

Um, so I thought that was a win.

And then he was telling me about how great he's, um, uh you know how great this was and how he wishes his his own personal laptop was running linux and i went i can do that for you if you like so his um boy did you run

into the right guy well i mean what were the odds honestly even even outside now

you've You've adopted that laptop for the rest of your life.

Oh, there it is.

100%.

Oh, yeah.

No, no, no.

That I get.

So anyway, his own personal laptop wasn't...

It's not the best machine, even when he bought it.

And he bought it, I think it was...

Did he have it last time I was in India? Was it the time before? Anyway, it's a Lenovo, but it's got like an Intel Celeron.

I think it's got four gigs of RAM.