Smallish town. The downtown tradition still lives. More vibrant than the mall by far seeing that it's mostly deserted.

They choose downtown to have far too much fun in. Auto shows. Multiple parades. Block parties. Apple festival. Etcetera

Hour long delay due to Christmas parade. Driving back roads like an old time bootlegger to make up time. Bah humbug

Once their build quality started slipping, possibly.

NOTE: I never owned a Vaio and am going by friend accounts of the later models.

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Unfortunately they are conduits for commercially valuable information.

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Precisely

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Like the one I did before, keep it as far away from non-paying customers as possible.

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I'd have to start with the ubuntu build to get the kernel, compiler, linker, init and such done.

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I'd probably do my own distro because I am sick in the head like that.

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I'm avoiding that thing - hard. It's rabbit hole I would never emerge from.