when i was a kid, watching samurai jack, i wondered if there could be AI with physical robots and factories that can make those robots from the cartoon show to take over the world, do what it’s told to do… It only would take one “Aku” to take admin rights once… I wish my childhood fear never happens…

I went researched a few years ago and concluded that there is no option for writers to be guaranteed “no piracy” and that’s why they prefer having paperbooks. (That is also after brainstorming with a few people to publish my own book if it were…) and those days i was trying to find an important book in electronic format and could not find it anywhere, the paper 10th edition version (which i eventually bought) is like 1000 pages and the e version i found was 200 ish pages summary. So my sad conclusion was that i just need a big’ol scanner at home, just so that i can scan everything that i buy in paper just because i could then keep it personally on my e-reader (and having destroyedbinding of each book i buy lmao)… is that too much to ask… my wife says no… lol

Does that provide epub when baught? Or does it lock you in with their DRM app?

Long story short, look at system76 and tixedo computers. I used to use s76 bit now I use tux, couldn’t be happier. (I come from a long era of thinkpads…)

I have a 10 years+ of this experience… There are a few things, you can DM me if you want to go in details. Here is a list in no particular order.

1.My host machine is always been system76 or tuxedo computers and OSs have been Ubuntu, Manjaro, pop os, Debian And a fee others. deb based have worked very well for me… .

2. I have a VM that is setup as a work machine of Windows 11.

3. My 2nd client is a control freak so they sent me a laptop which is sitting permanently in my closet connected to a raspberry pi with a hat. Its basically a KVM over IP. My machine /phone/tablet is part of my private virtual home network so I can jump into that machine with any of those devices with just a browser.

4. From your Linux host machine dedicate one browser altogether to office e.g. if you use Firefox dedicate a Chromium to that office. Bonus points if that browser is in a docker :) then you have no cookie mixing and is a cleaner setup. From this dedicated browser use “login. Microsoft. Com” without spaces ofc, and can use all apps (if the admin has allowed it from your comoany) and there is no hyper overkill intune or other Mac address / machine name related shenanigans setup by your company admin.

In my story, it started before 2010, I tried the Linux (Ubuntu) host and wine based office apps and that was slower than (and had issues other than slowness, I sometimes have 200mb+ of excel files with is text only CSV before I convert them into something sensible) and VM based workflow was faster and more stable. TBH I didn’t delve into wine based apps since then because the work/clients logging also get machine info. Etc… In a VM I can control most of it and in a kvm over ip, it’s completely stealth. You can connect a Macbook pro m3 for the heck of it on that KVM setup and no one would have any idea (apart from hardware name of monitor and keyboard mouse names, which you can go extra mile and change if you really want to)… (FYI I am not an IT person so apologise in advance for the above if this is an overkill, this tipic is dear to my heart and is a hobby so to speak, so happy to help if you DM me)

Some say they took money from the Brits to take over at the end of the 2nd WW as a end to kalifat.

In the new plasma/Wayland it is pretty dope… I make 4 desktops per activity in a matrix shape and use 2 activities work and home and it’s pretty easy to zip a out in the OS and switch activities and desktops with muktifinger scroll, and shortcuts for desktops and activity switching…

Interface tailoring, desktop tapestry, jamming all up in my pazaaz.