Nick

Is $100 your max? If you can go a little higher you can get a great Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB for $169 that will be a better option than most of the SSDs you listed.

For basic form filling, the Firefox PDF editor is fine. But sounds like OP’s use case is more advanced than that.

Thanks for sharing this, it actually looks like a fantastic alternative to Adobe Acrobat DC.

Master Replicas took over the Eaglemoss stock and they have an XL E for $72.

Mustafar was shown in Rogue One, specifically Vader’s Castle. It was also the planet at the very beginning of Rise of Skywalker where Kylo Ren slaughters all of those people and gets a holocron, or something.

Take a look at Minifree Ltd. For less than USD $500, you can get a decent ThinkPad with Libreboot and your choice of Linux distro (KDE Debian is installed by default).

Bit of an aside, but my wife needed a new phone and couldn’t wait until now, so she got an iPhone 14 Pro. She had backed up her old phone to iCloud and it was updated to the latest version of iOS 16. Setting up the new iPhone from iCloud was an absolutely hellish experience. For whatever reason, the new phone would refuse to install the newest point release of iOS 16, so whenever it would try to restore from iCloud backup it couldn’t because the backup was created with a newer iOS version. I had to wipe the new phone and restart the restore process 4 times before it finally completed the iOS update and could restore the backup. And one of those times it started to install the software update but just froze after about an hour. Even after it restored from backup, it took another hour for everything (texts, photos, emails) to sync over. I’ve never before experienced this with an iPhone.