I have a legion that I used for some development. It’s not terrible. Keyboard is worse than thonkpad but not that much worse. I use an external keyboard anyway. I set it up to use only the discrete GPU as I don’t really take it out and about and setting up the automatic switching is a little painful. Doesn’t bend where it shouldn’t for the most part, thermals are OK.

It always depends on what you’re going to use it for.

I recommend the Livable Low-carbon City podcast for information about building techniques like that.

historically speaking, when you consider its domestication by indigenous people in South America, its appropriation by Spanish colonizers, its resistance to looting by marauding armies compared to grain crops, and the freaking Irish potato famine, I think it becomes quite clear that the potato is a politically relevant crop and could reasonably be considered political.