It’s my informed opinion that you are wrong on both points, but you are of course entitled to your opinion.

How are you giving google your data if it’s from a tempmail?

Also, can you please point out to me where in OPs post does it mention anything about privacy? It specifically mentions not paying, not privacy concerns.

No, I use an account, created with a tempmail address.

Not possible? That’s precisely what I do.

Why do people complicate their lives so much?

Firefox+ublock origin+ privacy badger does it for me.

I’m a Linux user since the age of Slackware diskette installs.

I tried Bazzite, or Aurora, rather, and found that it wasn’t for me. Having to spin up distro boxes or VMs to do things that are pacman -Syu some-random-app in my current distro, is just not for me.

I lived in ultrastable Debianland for years, and recently tried Script Kiddie Arch (CachyOS). I have my at-least-for-now forever home.

I have a fairly bleeding edge distro that is slick, fast, polished, friendly, and If something goes boom, I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me, and I don’t have to live in a system where the important decisions are made for me.

I have an old iMac for that.

CachyOS is friendlier and less problematic than W11, and if you need help, it’s wiki + Arch’s legendary wiki + community is way more useful than your average Windows “run DISM” bullshit.

A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.

“Kid”? Man, to call me kid you must be a really old fuck.

Yes, but some do things better than others. CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most. Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4.

Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc…

That is one of the defining characteristics of Linux.

CachyOS is very btrfs savvy. I would try booting from a CachyOS ISO.

Print shops usually don’t have solvent printers, which are the type used for outdoor signs and stickers. Look for a sign making business.

If you ask nicely, and explain that you don’t mind waiting until they have a waste space on their print queue, they may charge you very little or nothing.

The reason for the explanation is to let them know that you know that when arranging jobs in the queue there are often waste spaces that they would discard anyway.

No, starfish just.

This, apart from the home assistant use, may be a great solution for an all in one klipper setup for 3d printers (I currently use a RasPi, and a tablet as a touchscreen), or installed inside a chunky keyboard, paired with one of these USB C all in one hubs as a PC in a keyboard build,. Neat.

Just an FYI, changing a battery in a phone with a glued back cover is fairly trivial. A hair dryer Is usually enough, tons of youtube tutorials, and you can get plastic back covers to replace the shitty glass ones from aliexpress for peanuts

My 5 year old Xiaomi has 8G

Why not merge or give the option to install PhotoGIMP during installation?

Affinity gets shit for not being open source, but Heck! it’s really a pro suite, and free, what are you complaining about!

I like the workflow and UI way better than Adobe’s, and the feel is like driving a Miata on a mountain road, insted of Adobe’s coaler pickup.

Sovol is reasonaby decent

No BTW in that post. I call fake.

Doesn’t having WSL under the hood negate Linux’s inherent security?

I’d much rather have Windows shit containerized within Linux.