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Is it possible to get health insurance with no copay at all in the US? My insurance in Berlin is about 1500€ per month, for which my employer pays half. If I lose my job, the unemployment office pays it and the price drops to 100€. The same happens if my salary drops, because the insurance cost is a percentage from my salary.

But if I came to the US, what kind of insurance would I get with $1500 per month?

GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/tn-panel-twisted-nematic-definition,5767.html

Old thinkpads let you to save 20 euros to get a TN film panel to your company laptop. Great for bean counters, awful screens to look at. Never buy these, always get an IPS screen.

One rule of thumb is to be really sure it doesn’t have a tn film screen. IPS at least and even those were really bad up until T490 etc. X1 series has better screens, but you cannot upgrade almost anything to those.

I would say OpenBSD is closer to the Slackware idea. You install the system and it works how it was designed. It might not be what you want, but if you are a security-minded C programmer, OpenBSD gives you the full experience out of the box.

It is not for everybody. But if you are in the crowd who consider Slackware, things like fingerprint reader or wifi are not the first things that are important for you.

Get a ThinkPad X230 and go with OpenBSD to get some of that old school unix feeling.

Working system until you need to upgrade something. I feel like the BSD systems are really what you want if a system like Slackware is what interests you. They have a tightly integrated core system with the kernel, and a ports tree to compile software from source with automatic dependency compilation. A lot of ports can be found as pre-compiled binaries.

All this with simple old school unix tools such as tar, cvs and make. All config is text files, everything meticulously documented in man pages. Very easy to upgrade.

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Just waiting for one that requires you to compile one Monad to define your whole distro. Types all the way.

Then I’m writing a blog post how your Linux distro is a burrito.

The refurbished thinkpads you find are usually three years old after the companies who lease them buy new ones for the users.

You can do a lot of things with a three year old thinkpad…