Which generation refused cookies?
I feel like most look at me like I’m crazy, regardless of age, when I deny/only accept the functional cookies on sites every single visit.

I get it and I would never buy a second hand laptop from a private seller. I’d go for one of those refurb-stores that promises at least 80% remaining battery and a limited 12 month warranty.
On second thought I might consider the private seller if I could check and test the machine in person before buying.

I hope you end up enjoying the chromebook until the currect pricing crisis has passed us by. :)

Insightful, and I too think your ending remark is where it lands after reading the original agpl paragraphs.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt

Sidenote; a second fork called euro_office has appeared on codeberg to make it even more confusing.
https://codeberg.org/euro_Office

I’ve always been a fan of machines with more power to them so I never really tried those dirt cheap netbooks out. Lucking out and getting one that also lasts for 6 years sounds nice. :)

The ThinkPads are still being made that way though, the latest T-series one earned a 10/10 repairability score at ifixit.
At the same time most enterprises I’ve been in contact with replaces anything that is 3+ years old instead of troubleshooting and fixing the machine which ensures the refurbished supply.

I did a quick check and the x13 yoga do sound like a good fit for your wishes, except for it being an older and refurbished machine that is. Convertible, touch and 1.25kg for 421€
https://www.refurbed.de/en-de/p/lenovo-thinkpad-x13-yoga-10310u/114695b/

For me it feels like buying an 8 year old car instead of a brand new one. You get a lot more for a lot less.

With an average yearly inflation of almost 2.5% the 400€ in 2006 is the same as about 650€ now in 2026. I have to remind myself of this constantly to avoid being too much of a penny pincher.
Add in that all low cost computers are at least 50€ costlier 2026 than 2025 due to the AI datacenters hogging all the memory increasing the price of storage, ram, cpu and gpu.

I know you don’ t want a second hand ThinkPad but they are wonderful long lasting machines. I got a functioning T440 and a T480 both with Debian on them. Second hand from myself as I got them for cheap without storage from work. Saving up for one, second hand or not, might actually save you money due to longevity.
The keyboard replacement of the proper Lenovo T series is also simple
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Lenovo+ThinkPad+T480+Keyboard+Replacement/140096
Just watch out for the Lenovo TXXs series. The “s” makes them slimmer and much harder to replace parts in.

First Contract Day sounds like something the Ferengi might celebrate. As long as it’s unfair in the right direction.

No coins, no card. Some allow sms as a secondary payment method.

Can’t really go home and start the PC up to pay for my parking and so on. :(
The high tech adoption in Sweden makes life really hard for those that don’t have Android/iPhone or lack the technical skill to use smartphone apps.

Not all foss, but alternatives are coming.
But at least in Sweden there’s too many apps that you need to function in society that can’t run on them that they can’t replace your primary phone yet.

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026
https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system
https://murena.com/smartphones/

Personally I’m curious about the Jolla Phone but haven’t made an order yet.

Prepare yourself for having to relearn a lot of “muscle memory”. I don’t use GrapheneOS myself as I don’t have a Pixel but I can answer regarding android phones longevity:
My Sony Xperia IV 10 from 2022 is a midrange phone I bought on sale for below 300 euro and it works well for me still. I think I might get through the AI memory crisis without switching phone.

Personally I’m looking forward to the Motorola offering that has been announced and would probably look at a pixel 9 pro refurbished if I wanted to buy now and not wait for the Motorola one. https://itsfoss.com/news/motorola-grapheneos-team-up/

The argument from Euro-office is that OnlyOffice combination of
Section 7 § 3(b): Mandating the retention of the OnlyOffice logo and branding in the user interface.
and
Section 7 § 3(e): Denying rights to use OnlyOffice trademarks.
Constitutes “further restrictions” that violate Section 10 of the AGPLv3, which prohibits imposing additional restrictions on top of the license.

I honestly think euro-office has a leg to stand on there, I’m curious to see what happens if it goes to court.
https://codeberg.org/danb/isitreallyfoss/issues/266
https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/onlyoffice/

I can throw enough hw at it to get it up n running too, I just rather build my own suite of more single purpose software that I can tailor to my own needs. :)

Hah! Yes, that one!

I bet that if they added pavement for the user path then a new path that’s cutting the corner even more would emerge.

With how bloated nextcloud is with their docker aio mess I’m not thrilled to see them take the lead on this.

The ones the register talked to seem to agree with you
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/

Con: Fewer guides, more complicated setup and having to solve the translation from CUDA with IPEX-LLM and so on. Not everything will run.

Pro: Looking at Intel Arc Pro B70 with 32GB for less than half the price of an RTX 5090 sure makes one curious to try it.

Problem with smaller footprint is cooling and how audible it becomes.
One idea is to use fiber optic hdmi cables and a usb extender to hide the pc away in another room.

If you want smaller footprint then the keyword to use is “Unified memory”, it can be reasonable fast for 30B models and a slow thinker mode for 70B ones.

edit: example of a Unified Memory Apple Mac Studio can be found here at $5499 for 96GB RAM
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio/m3-ultra-chip-32-core-cpu-80-core-gpu-96gb-memory-2tb-storage

When it comes to Nvidia GPUs the VRAM is the main thing to look for.
For consumer cards it is:
Entry level - RTX 5060 Ti 16GB RAM with a price point around 500-550 euro
Mid - Buying a used RTX 3090 24GB RAM with a price point around 830 euro when I look at swedish second hand markets
High - RTX 5090 32GB RAM with a price point around 3500 euro

After that you end up looking at the RTX Pro Blackwell cards:
Entry - RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB RAM ~5300 euro
Mid - RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB RAM ~10100 euro

It all depends on which models you want to run, you can definitely start playing around with Llama 3 8B and similar models with a 5060 Ti 16GB.

If you’re looking at 24B-30B models you need the 24GB VRAM that RTX 3090 offers and get a larger context window if you go for the RTX 5090.

If you’re looking to run Llama 3 70B then you need to go into the RTX Pro level of vram.

All of this is based on running it with Nvidia cards, there’s also other setups such as Mac Studios with huge amount of RAM. They’re slower but allow for much larger models at the same price point.
You could also run with AMD/Intel gpus but much software is built primarily for running CUDA (and Nvidia) gpus so it’s more work and not always compatible.

I know you said no “monster rack” but I don’t really know what you classify as a monster. :)
An ordinary gaming pc is also a good starter AI pc, so something like this allows you to do both:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/sFp4qd

Seeing the tax difference in Sweden and Denmark and then realizing the Danes still rank higher than us in welfare and healthcare reviews…
I don’t wanna learn to speak gibberish but I am a bit envious.

off-topic: Why does every news-site require you to trust at least half a dozen third party domains to even see the interesting parts? Shared the stats here.