I've had arch "break" on me about 4-5 times. Most of the time it is issues regarding Nvidia drivers being updated (usually just chroot and reinstall/reconfigure drivers fixes it), but the others were mostly my fault (I'm often pretty lazy about making sure my system is up to date, and expect some breakage if I update only about every couple of months on a pretty customized system without looking to make sure nothing will cause an issue).
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Tlp and Intel xtu for undervolting (lowers temps and power consumption, but newer cpus don't support it) are pretty good ideas. If battery life is your perogative, try avoiding discrete gpus, they can be a pain to make sure they don't drain battery in Linux. 14hrs is possible, but you have to spec properly (think thinkpad t480 with dual batteries, and a low power display).
I usually carry around $30 with my cards, if I'm budgeting it can help make there be a limit as to what I can buy without having to rationalize my purchase to myself. Also, nice to have if needed, even if that isn't everyday.
Im just reading the article, and remembering the whole domestic abuse campaign the dress produced. Think this just really drove the point home for sure.
Just learn how to use unity (older c#). Once you start getting into that, you will probably know where to go from there.
Plus when you have a particularly bad day, you can say, this shows I did something today worthwhile. Even if it's a small thing, sometimes you just need that little thing.
I think it's not a case of the software not being perfect, but that they are actively breaking in live environments, where it is amazingly critical that they not break. If that is an issue, then they need to get to such a level of confidence were they don't need to worry about breaking, which tesla is apparently not at currently.
$70k in my area in NC. It's a lovely 2bd/1ba, and can keep the rain off your head (mostly). It totally wouldn't be condemned if actually inspected.