I didn't know about öffi, thought it would only cover Germany but it supports much more countries. Thanks for the tip!

To be more concrete: security keys can communicate over USB or NFC. Just make sure it supports the protocol you want to use it for.

But there is also passkeys which is both software- and hardware based and is almost equally secure.

Oh, you've been missing out on a lot of "fun" 😄

This is a cool - and odd - device. I've been eyeing the uConsole for a while, but haven't made the plunge since its still in pre-order, and the actual device you got is build on Risc-V. This isn't a widely adopted architecture, so you are in for an adventure.

Would love to hear what you think of the device. And if you get tired of it, PM me as I might be intrested (at the behest of my partner).

"EXPLORE the UNTAPPED POTENTIAL", I love the agents unyielding optimism.

I jumped ship from Ubuntu to fedora last year and fedora is awesome. Fedora has a bit newer packages and the default felt right (albeit I missed system tray plugin from Ubuntu). Some hardware work better OOTB on Ubuntu, so always try with a live distro first.

I don't care much for the terminal, but I noticed that I care a lot about my shell and the tools I use in it.

And the prompt - can't live without my ASCII bling-blink.

This is awesome. What hardware are you running (m1 or m2)? Also, is there anything that isn't working?

I've been eyeing to buy a m* silicon based mac, but I'm not into tinkering into fixing things.

I have the Go gen 1 with 4 Gb ram, for the exact same user cases ad you described.

The compatibility with Linux is great, but be mindful that you need a Windows installation to boot from USB (!). But the pen and touchscreen works out of the box.

The performance though is not the best, boot can take some time. I'd say forget about YouTube. But light coding and non-demanding websites could work. The form factor is great though... 😊

OP, if you're interested in buying a used one, we could perhaps arrange something, if you live in Europe? Message me in that case.

PS. A Linux surface community would be great, I'd happily join it!

In addition to all the sound advice you've been give so far, you should have a support contract in case you run into problems and ideally, contract someone to set up your laptop so you have proper encryption, backup etc. You have to consider both meeting the business deadlines, and ensuring the confidentiality and availability of the data. If you want to do this yourself, contract someone to validate your configuration.

I haven't tried fx yet (but I will soon enough!) but my main gripe with jq is that its not very intuitive or userfriendly to pass arguments to get what I want out of it. fx seems to offer an interactive (TUI) way to interact with its content, wich might be better suited for my usercase where I just want to consume the logs with my eyes. jq is better as a pipe between two commands to process the json data.

Nonexistent in neither Scandinavian nor middle-eastern countries.