porous_grey_matter

I've had the joy of working on a python project with strict type checking enforced in CI and wow is it a different experience. Am a big fan.

The mac comes with 256 GB though, and 256 > 1

Support for M1 and M2 is pretty good now but M3 is not quite there yet and it'll probably be years before everything works nicely on M4, sadly

Just start wearing a "make fascists afraid again" hat and let him do the escalation (or something more subtle if necessary in your workplace)

Well yeah, it's full self driving not full self stopping

It is, to within 5%, just make the equals sign squiggly and you're good

Wow, I guess cryptography is just fraudulent, who knew

Don't worry, people here yell at you for not using profane language because "you can swear on the internet", they're a weird bunch.

Your approach and understand seems realistic and solid. Go with any of the beginner-friendly distributions, as people have said, Mint or Ubuntu are good choices, because most of the support information online is available for them. Because Mint is based on Ubuntu, instructions for Ubuntu will almost always work on it too.

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The Linux mint installation guide is IMO very clear and easy to follow, so I'd start there, and for the first time you can just go up until the "the live session" section and play around with it before deciding to install. The guide for Ubuntu is very similar.

Good luck and have fun!

"doing nothing is a decision" is a legitimate position you can argue for, but it is not some kind of settled moral fact that you can just assert without any justification.

Yes that's my point exactly, people love to dogpile on anyone who doesn't jump at the easy consequentialist solution, but there are other valid interpretations

That's another way of looking at it