I thought Chrome (and Vanadium on GrapheneOS) are usually preinstalled as system apps, does it have the same limitation?

Too high, my state has one of the shittiest education systems in the country and shitty bike infrastructure/public transit so I’m not even sure what they’re doing with the tax income

I thought that Flatpak breaks unprivileged user namespaces

The only person doing something revolutionary in liberal countries in recent years is Luigi. And he has the balls to admit that he did it. Beyond that, any other protest has been much closer to voting than to an uprising.

I wouldn’t say he’s the only person, there’s been a lot of scattered protests lately (not counting peaceful marches) and destroying Flock cameras has become a social media trend, but other than that I mostly agree with your point

but liberals at least talk about things like operation orange chicken with the discussion as the main part of their resistence movement

I had to do some manual configuration to make the XDG portal filepicker work correctly in Niri, but after that I haven’t had any problems

Depends on your threat model IMO, but I wouldn’t use either of those services in particular

lol that’s my favorite web browser

Unfortunately no, I tried using Nix on Droid and it’s super buggy and Android’s aggressive OOM killer and lack of systemd didn’t help, NixOS-AVF on Android Terminal is probably going to be my next shot, and hopefully the Linux support on Fairphone makes more progress

Fitting how the US part of the company does more survellance than the Chinese part

I will never in my life understand why people want flagship phones

It’s easier to compile Rust programs and emulate Wii games on phones with higher RAM/CPU/Storage

I’m mainly concerned about the old CPU being a lot slower at compiling larger projects than I realize or not being able to handle people’s latest JavaScript AI slop. If it can run stuff like Gentoo though then it should work.

Yeah that’s my biggest concern

My ideal laptop right now is the Framework 13 Pro which looks like a massive upgrade over their previous models but the configuration I want is like $2000 and it doesn’t ship until October anyways. There’s other configurations for $1000 or less refurbished then I could upgrade parts over time but I would end up replacing everything anyways. Repairing my Macbook M1 is also something I’m considering so I have an appointment tomorrow with the Apple store, but I’m guessing the entire logic board would have to be replaced which is expensive for a laptop that’s next on Apple’s axe list and is 3 generations older than the oldest laptops they sell, and while I like the laptop a lot the lack of repairability and official Linux support is really annoying as well, and I want a working laptop with a swappable SSD for security/business reasons anyways. Getting a cheap backup laptop that’s reliable is something I’ve been wanting for a while and would buy me more time to decide on a better laptop and find paid work.

Not sure. $200-300 is the range where I would almost certainly get one. If it’s more than that now then there’s other options I’d need to weigh.

For the M* series I haven’t noticed wifi/bluetooth issues but it’s an entirely different platform that requires a custom kernel and it has a different set of quirks. Overall the hardware is really nice aesthetically and the processing power is good, but you have to put up with Apple’s bullshit.

Framework sponsors a lot of open source projects, the Hyprland controversy is overplayed IMO and they aren’t really worse than mainstream brands

disconnect your landlord’s internet not yours

I think some distros have a systemd service that does it weekly or monthly which is usually enough but in rare cases it’s not, just know that if you suddenly get out of space errors on BTRFS but you’re not actually out of space that’s probably the issue

*BTRFS users when you don’t rebalance soon enough and run out of inodes so you can’t boot your computer