I use Gboard because I can’t find another keyboard with good japanese 9 key flick typing.

Good point, in the countryside there’s not as much apartment living so it would probably be easier to install a charging station.

The big cities are walkable / have good transport, but the countryside is inaccessible without a car for the most part.

How is Japan going to do that by 2035? Almost nobody has a garage, and there are no charging spaces at the parking spots most people are forced to rent (you need one within 2km of your residence). I haven’t heard of any mandate to get charging spots installed at these rental parking areas, and then there’s the issue of how electricity would be billed. Electric cars are for the very wealthy right now ( in Japan ).

I had no clue those were a thing, thanks for letting me know. Does the dock require additional software on windows as well?

USB docking station should be supported (unless it’s one of those external battery ones that plug into the bottom of the laptop). Remoting into work is fine but depends on the setup. For example, openssh with rdp works fine, can’t vouch for other solutions but I’m sure you could get them working.

Edit: I have been informed that displaylink docks require additional software. I didn’t even know those were a thing so I don’t know how difficult it would be to setup.

TIL, I had no clue why we call this arbitrary important file a file stab, but fs tab makes sense now. F stab is more fun to say though (but has probably confused more than just me)

Every time I’ve had a windows install come with my computer, there has been a sticker somewhere with the serial key. I’ve even been able to reuse that key for other computers before.

I have simforge pedals, vrs direct drive wheel, a Chinese knock off h pattern shifter, and a moza Hand break. The hand break is the only one that works without any tinkering. I couldn’t get the pedals to work at all, and the wheel doesn’t register properly so I haven’t been able to get that working either sadly.

I wish I could fully abandon my windows partition, but sadly my sim racing peripherals don’t all work on Linux, and I bought those before I started thinking about switching.