why would they tank? factories are making different kinds of chips for AI hardware

on my 5+ year old TVs that didn’t work. you need a developer account, an app, and a few commands over SSH

you need popular public sentiment for that. most people just shrug it off if even that

store apps can also be uninstalled from the settings app.

for the first setting, it’s easier to turn that and more off with o&o shutup10

I wouldn’t buy an SSD for storage like that. It’s more expensive than a hard drive, for being faster, but this is not your OS drive, you don’t need that added performance. hard drives are plenty fast when you are just using it casually, without your operating system and various installed programs actively using it for lots of random reads. they are capable of 100 MB/s reads and writes, as fast but often faster than a gigabit internet connection, which is the maximum a common computer can handle. unless you got a HDD with SMR tech, which will become slower when used as an IT pro, but unless you use it in an array or you write extreme amounts to it at once, it’s not going to be a problem.

Besides, SSDs also lose their data quicker when left unpowered for a long time. I really think they are a bad, ill-considered choice for that task. a choice driven by adverts.

Storing your most important, irreplaceable pictures on someone else’s computer ONLY, with no control over them? That’s an insane practice.

But it’s SOOOOOO convenient! I deserve the convenience! take my money, take my data, I am no weirdo and I need no privacy, just let me have convenience without having to think through anything at all!

You either have to opt for convenience or privacy/preformance/security. You can’t have all things at once.

you don’t need to make linux to be hard to use. but it seems that’s what you want.

Commedore is back in business,

you mean, a different company with the same name. that commodore is not back in business. pointing this out because it sets the wrong expectations.

and it’s OS is de-googled android

that’s not true. it does have toogle play, and all the other google components required by license to have that.

but it has good support for degoogled roms, even eelockable bootloader for safety with supported roms.

maybe you could keep whatsapp on the cheapest phone you can find. it can also probably be turned off when not being used. this is what I would do.

what do you think they should use? something that is requiring online registration, and is uploading their pictures and documents to its creator, against the user’s best interest?

any distro that enables flatpak out of the box will let you install both of these browsers. fedora is one like that. if you are using a KDE based desktop, typing their name in the app launcher will offer to install them (after the flatpak database was downloaded once, that should happen some time after first boot)

when using a user friendly distro, this does not require much understanding I think. bot of course, without any understanding, there will be issues. like if someone doesn’t know the computer is supposed to be shut down before cutting power to it.