Be careful buying a phone from eBay. There’s a scam where once you get the phone the seller calls it in as stolen and the IMEI is blacklisted (so the seller gets insurance money). There’s nothing you can do to stop it. My Pixel’s IMEI slot 1 got blacklisted but slot 2 (esim) is okay and I’m using it without issue, though limited to one esim at a time now.

The old school box arts are the best!

You will find lots of box art here FYI: https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/libretro-thumbnails

I’ve heard that new apppliances, etc will have 5g built in to circumvent you when you don’t connect it to your WiFi. So if they then have a microphone installed it’ll still upload that data without your permission.

More adoption from big companies will likely make these big e-sports games reconsider making their anti-cheat compatible with Linux which is essentially the last hurtle to get people off of Windows.

I’ve been in a similar situation looking for a NAS setup that would work for me, and with my current limited knowledge. I settled on the HomePiNAS. It’s a custom PCB they make that mounts a CM5, up to 6 drives, 2.5G NIC, and x2 m.2 slots all in a 3D printable case they can ship for you too. Put on Open Media Vault or whatever else you want and it’s good to go. I was interested because it’s not a complicated setup, allows for AI chips to be added or whatever else you want to use, has a 2.5G nic, and is low power.

It is expensive for what it is but it’s really the only option I’m aware of that keeps things simple and has Signal (or anything other than normal SMS and calling). Not sure what cell provider it works with. I also know nothing about the Sonim.

As far as a smart phone goes for your authenticator you could put Lineage on a Hisense A9 phone. It’s an eink smartphone

Flip phones from my understanding typically use a Google based OS as well as plain SMS and calls are not encrypted. If I were you I’d use the Punkt MP02 phone because it’s very basic but uses Signal still for communication encryption. Otherwise I’m happy for you that you went through with it and are enjoying it

Thanks for the Mac address tip. My home WiFi UI gets super slow after I have a million different devices connected because I have multiple GrapheneOS devices. Now I won’t have to constantly delete logged devices

No they don’t. EasyOptOuts is the one TechLore recommends and also the one Consumer Reports recommends for your best bang for buck.

I’m unaware of that. It works fantastic for streaming up to 4K and it will play HDR, Atmos, etc. LibreElec it also supports CeC.

Use Kodi to pirate shows and movies. TroyPoint has lots of good articles on how to set it up. Use RealDebrid and the Umbrella addon.

A 2GB RPi5 works great, install LibreElec (Kodi OS that’s FOSS), put it in a Flirc passive case (they also have a Kodi variant that they then donate some proceeds towards), and hook up a small wireless USB keyboard.

IronFox is a mobile app while the OP is asking about desktop

I did a similar thing and did put them with Kinoite. My dad has had only a handful of concerns, most of which are related to the transition and learning. His system has worked great with no real issues. I think once an update failed but after a reboot it proceeded just fine.

Plasma is so modern, Fedora is so smooth, atomic is great for this purpose, fingerprint scanner works, touchscreen works, the boot splash screen looks pretty, the list goes on

Humanity is still better off without this company

I just needed a tablet for work so I got a Pixel Tab and put GrapheneOS on it. I installed the app (assuming that’s what normal people/workers do) and then they told me they use the web interface as it works better.

Keep swapping the OS (or have different memory cards) and play around with whatever software you come across that peaks your interest.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Next from the Braille Institute

Needs a GoG release as it looks great

I use Kagi and it works well. Seems to give results on what I’m looking for. It gives me the website I typed in rather than a billion other things with a different name first

I’ll give it a try sometime