I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it’s also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone

Only outside of Europe or their free-trade partners, in Europe I can get a Gen 5 for 400€ and Gen 6 for about 550€. It’s extremely annoying for most countries, but regarding the US it’s 100% their regime’s fault for not having any comparable company (they get immediately smushed by Google, Apple & Co by any means necessary) or at least low / no tariffs with the EU zone (Trump literally killed a done deal in this regard one week before ratification with his threats of invading Greenland).

For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it’s a very good laptop, but it’s literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.

Now that’s really special. :D There are a lot of “normal” (x86) devices on the market that are way more affordable as well. For a while Slimbook offered a modern native Linux laptop for <500€, and there are also companies like System76 (US), NovaCustom (NL) or Star Labs (UK) with laptops running on open firmware that come with less restrictions and powerful hardware.

For people who aren’t (yet) poor it’s mostly a problem of discoverability and lack of knowledge not to go with the more sane products. We get bombarded with ads promising the best experience on the usual platforms (that are as manipulative as possible). BambuLab also plays this game perfectly, their influencer marketing paired with VC-funded undercutting prices are top notch in getting people locked into their garbage.

People who can’t imagine that should try buying a non-smart TV. It’s fucking impossible, unless 24-32 inch are enough for you (PC monitor size).

You can contribute to that.

Nitrokey’s devices are also worth a look, they’re a European company based in Germany and really know their stuff. Their NitroWall routers run on Coreboot and come with either OPNsense or OpenWrt.

Dropping an extensive explanation and how-to is a meme.

Sending it to Recyclingfabrik in Germany. Unfortunately access to high-quality filament recycling companies is very much dependent on your location.

Additionally it can screw up sometimes. There are known issues with it with OpenSuse, causing either defective repo settings (the detection of the physical media gets mangled) or even unbootable systems. I think this can also happen on some other distros, given Ventoy’s uncommon bootchain.

Given the unexplained blobs as well at least OpenSuse recommends not to use Ventoy.

I thought of Lunduke, but mental outlaw also went down the drain.

Your word in the Linux communities’ hardliners ears. The consistent rejection of isolation concepts seen in Flatpak or Snap by some people go completely beyond me.

It’s the other way around: Fortnite still doesn’t support Linux. Which is good given it contains rootkits.

Then you heard wrong, those are arguably outdated information (how finicky permissions are is rather subjective). And it’s only bloat if you ignore the advantages things like version-pinning offers.

You might confused the speed argument with Snap. Those are noticeably slow.

Why, Flatpak is nice.

It’s not just that your comparison is so far fetched it already disconnected, what you say is also plain wrong. You don’t give up anything in this constellation.

crucifies you anyway

If this is a real headline then the author is either incompetent regarding code and the complexity of big projects or very competent in regards to marketing and making ragebait headlines. Either of the two.

Don’t they want to monetize those as well?

“Too politicial” apparently. At least that’s what he said in the 4 minute snippet I managed to endure.

I asked my roommate who that guy is. Showed me a 4 minute clip of rambling. Now I have brain cancer.

Just tried it, working is indeed nicer after some nice fresh tuna and Sushi.

That’s simply not true, if the required dependencies are already downloaded they get used by every Flatpak app. If you have three apps requiring the Gnome 46 libs those only exist once.

I don’t know where this myth about Flatpaks always being gigabytes in size originates from or why it’s so persistent, but it’s wrong.