https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150

I have no experience with this. Just sharing so you have more ideas to think about

Not on GoG??? I’m never buying any more games from Steam as they aren’t DRM free

He was able to install Linux and Windows but couldn’t figure out how to pair a Bluetooth device…

That’ll certainly be very interesting to see how accurate that is over time. Would be a game changer.

10% over 8yrs to me is a huge loss. Think of a 2004 vehicle. That doesn’t seem too old and certainly lots of those vehicles have modern expected amenities. It would have lost 25% of it’s fuel tank size today if it had a battery instead. Diesel hybrids would be a great solution for outstanding fuel economy that would last for many, many, many years

Battery degradation and telemetry/surveillance will still be large issues if you do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIryvRwxp9A&t=670

Timestamp 11min10sec

I remember reading maybe a year ago that Nissian pushed an update to those Leaf’s that prevented them from charging during certain hours so you couldn’t get the benefit of cheap electricity rates. Either that or they just took away your ability to set specific charging times to the same affect.

Electric cars are not that great for the environment if you look into it deeply. Purchasing an old car and having things rebuilt like the engine are much more sustainable. You could also swap the engine out for an electric motor.

The largest block to having modern private cars is that laws require cars to have driver monitoring systems and kill switches installed. Cars also have microphones in them for hands free calling, emergency calls, and active noise cancellation.

Connecting your phone to your car is also a huge privacy invasion as now your phone that knows everything about you is tied to an invasive vehicle that takes you everywhere. A data aggregators wet dream.

You would need to remove the sim card at the minimum but it’s impossible to know ahead of time if that will detrimentally affect it’s functions and throw codes.

I have read about work being done on Linux operating systems for cars that I assume would be more open to modification but I don’t think we can expect anything reasonably private anytime soon from that.

You don’t own your games you “bought” on Steam so… no

One profile. No Google sandbox stuff. All open source programs.

On my work Pixel tablet I have a home profile as owner with Aurora store just to be able to load it on the other profile. Then a secondary “work” profile with all the bloat

I saw an ad for something I had just purchased and it bothered me very much. I began researching how that was possible and found all the privacy stuff. I started to Linux, then GrapheneOS, then my router, finally took my TV offline

Be aware that Mint disables you from finding non-verified flatpak applications by default. You can enable it in the GUI somewhere

You might like the Divinity Original Sin series

What’s your reasoning for wanting to switch?

Detroit Become Human. What an absolutely amazing story game

LibreElec (Kodi pirating box)

How did you get Peacock to work? I’ve never had it work on Linux in the browser and read online that it’s because of Linux specifically.

I got sick of my devices spying on me

Network other companies you could work for via people, old bosses, etc that you know. Get them to put in a good word for you and then give them a call and schedule a professional interview. I did this (not in the tech sector) and bypassed all the online job hunting bullcrap. I’ve got a really great job now that I’m happy to be at for many years to come. I’m even using a GrapheneOS pixel tablet at work