I'm gonna beat the same drum most people beat here, you know it's dystopian when you need the manufacturer's permission to be "let" delete something from your device. This criticism equally applies to Android devices with locked bootloaders.

Aaaahh! Who are you?! Where's Uncle Slim?

Re the web browsers I think you're right. You may get away with a more lightweight browser like SeaMonkey or Falkon, maybe like 1 tab of Chromium lol

Distros I'd try on that would be Linux Mint Debian Edition, Debian w/ lightweight DE like LXDE or Xfce, or Arch Linux 32 if you really want to make it minimalist. Gentoo if you're very adventurous but with my EEE PC I found compile times took up to days.

For those across the pond, 3658mm of rain (12')

Really sets it in seeing it in mm

Edit: See below comment, I completely misinterpreted the storm surge meaning

Working at a computer shop, Lenovo ThinkPads are usually pretty fine, but the main fault we've seen with them is lack or completely missing thermal compound. On one occasion I saw my colleague's machine not post, and IIRC we had to reset the CMOS to get it back up.

Sky News being least biased with high factual and credibility??? And the mods are surprised when we users keep protesting and downvoting this damn bot.

I had to do a double take between this comment and the one by davidgro@lemmy.world

Don't be so certain - I'd recommend Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT over Windows 11 any day

I don't think it is right? The environment looks completely different and the one in the post is 12", which the 11"8 (or now 12"4) never was.

God the school's response is so sleazy and unapologetic

On the occasion I’ve rushed into an Aldi 30 minutes before closing, they have that too

So you can use KeePass + Syncthing to synchronize the database file across your devices. Keeps it distributed and I've heard a lot of recommendations for this, although I haven't tried it.

If you don't want to do that, Bitwarden is well regarded and probably would suit your needs based on what you've said.

For my threat model, I don't trust any online password manager, so I host my own local Bitwarden server (Vaultwarden) and use Tailscale to securely access it from any device, and if the server goes down, the Bitwarden client keeps a cached copy on the device itself.