I remember some years ago when I still lurked 4chan that /t/ was all about buying old thinkpads, installing Arch on them, and showing off your i3 set-up. Prices were rising then too.
Yeah, I meant /g/. It felt like things really got out of hand after the 2016 election. That's when I noticed the partisan bickering really start to take over boards that had mostly avoided it before. One side felt emboldened, and the other felt under attack, and so both of them just endlessly derailed what could have been good threads.