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My daily driver is a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad T14 gen2 with R5/16/512 GB. 360e last year from a trusted retailer with a 1y warranty. I expect I'll be happy with it for some years, as my previous T450s is still running as a homelab.
I also just acquired a 2014 MacBook Air for two packs of coffee to use as a distraction free tty writerdeck and toy around with, as it's my first piece of Apple hardware.
I originally got a Nuphy Air 75 slim mechanical kb to lug around to school, since the iMacs we had there had horrible cheap kbs. It has since surpassed a full sized mechanical as my primary kb. Occasionally on weekend trips, when I wanted to get some stuff done, I've opted to only take the Air 75 instead of a laptop and worked on the phone, either in notes, cloud or termux. Sometimes I've thought about getting a neck holder for the phone to improve ergonomics, but so far the wacky image of using one in public has deterred me from it.
This. From simple personal choices to the marker economy and politics. With games we're introduced to cheat codes pretty early in our lives. Some people outgrow them, some don't. Too bad our systems encourage their use, whether it's a time-to-market thing, cutting costs, or the next election.