Whatever the choice, there will be trade-offs. From a technical standpoint, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with the upcoming Motorola phone with GrapheneOS as long as the bootloader is still unlockable and relockable so that the user can install a known good copy of GOS instead of trusting what Motorola put on it.

A laptop that I use every now and then today was already manufactured when I was 10 years old.

As much as I trust them with passwords. Which is not too much trust. Implementations of passkeys also tend to be frustratingly bad.

As long as you have a strong backup strategy, I would recommend full disk encryption during installation, especially if for a laptop. Peace of mind with negligible cost on modern hardware. Even accessing the encrypted disk from a live USB takes only two extra commands compared to an unencrypted disk. As long as the LUKS header doesn’t corrupt, hence the need for good backups.

Not going after a bug though, it’s just the way the included battery meter in Xfce (and other X11 battery indicators I’ve found) works, while things like Android track usage over time to give a better estimate.

But based on the other responses, it looks like I’ll have to cook it up myself.

It’s scary to think about it, but I don’t dwell on it since I can’t do much about it without really disrupting my life.

As a daily LibreOffice user, I agree with you on the UI. I can’t even keep track of how many different settings menus there are and each of them are a labyrinth unto themselves. What ended up saving my sanity was setting the UI to single toolbar and purging every unnecessary button in Calc and Writer. Might be unpopular, but I then arranged the remaining toolbar features the way they do in Google Docs. For Impress, I set it to the tabbed ribbon-esque interface.

Not that I’m aware of

That is correct, IIRC, the mismatch does limit how much of it can run in dual-channel. Even if a single stick is natively 24 or 48 GB, there is additional strain on the memory controller. It is the way it is on my setup since I had planned an upgrade to a full 64 GB and was holding off until a good deal on the remaining 32 GB kit, which will never come unless the AI bubble bursts.

Xfce

My workstation has 48 GB RAM with 50% allocation allowed to zram, no disk swapping. It works just fine. Once I use up the majority of my RAM, it kicks in the same way it would on any other system with less RAM.

Pro:

• do most of what needed two phones on a single phone
• avoids charging, carrying, and maintaining two separate phones
• I’d personally put a lot more here if dual-booting Android and Linux

Con:

• hard to find a phone that supports it
• the need to unlock bootloader could still break integrity checks despite using a stock ROM
• IMEI still shared between ROMs, most of the isolation is already achievable through user profiles
• have to reboot to use anything on the other ROM

The communities I’m interested in are already well-moderated. I’d probably also be super passionate for a few days then vanish until something sparks my interest again.

That really stinks. Does the audio version do anything different?

16 GB VRAM GPU, models stored on SSD, rest of the computer doesn’t have to be crazy. Intel Arc is best bang for the buck at the moment. You can get LLM running on 8 GB cards or even the CPU, but IMO such small models are more novelties than workhorses. I personally use Debian but you’ll be fine as long as your distro’s repo has drivers recent enough for your GPU.

For perspective, I’m using such a build to help with boilerplate code, single-use scripts that I don’t have the patience to trial-and-error (like ones that have to deal with directory structures and special characters), getting an idea of what’s what when decompiling and reverse engineering, brainstorming tip-of-the-tongue ideas, and upscaling images.

Well, that’s the thing. I wasn’t going to bow down to that app’s demands or put a band-aid on it, I had to conquer it.

There is a particular camera app that a few of my close friends and I have used for group photos since over a decade ago. It’s proprietary and tracker-infested, but there’s a certain humor and nostalgia to the filters and effects that I’ve never found a good way to replicate without the app. It’s sort of an in-joke that we insist on using it whenever we do get together. So I have it on my secondary device and painstakingly patched the apk so it can run without any unnecessary permissions.

I’m really happy that the schools I went to used a similar projection for all of their world map posters. I think there’s more educational value to seeing all the landmasses and countries properly scaled in size. It’s not like we’re going to navigate the world using some random Mercator projection poster torn from the wall.

I don’t have a good answer, but I wonder the same and about the technical reasons why, if some websites require such data, the browser can’t just lie and touch up rendering in post to fit whatever unique window size I have. AFAIK, uBlock already does some of its own CSS touch-up so there aren’t awkward gaps where ads once were.

Of the browsers I’ve tried out, the Cromite project goes furthest to mitigate and obfuscate the data it hands out, but in their words, it’s still not comprehensive.

All sorts of animals have superior application-specific circuitry. Like bearded vultures that, while in flight, can drop bones precisely onto rocks to break them open and get at the marrow. But they lack the general-purpose processing power needed to abstract such skills into mathematical representations. Same abstraction likely needed to apply one skill creatively to other uses or apply logic to analyze something.

I’m no neuroscientist/biologist, but I could see an ideal scenario and measurement setup where dolphins and orcas maybe rival our general-purpose intelligence. But whatever it is, it still isn’t enough for them to build any recognizable society yet.