You can just buy second hand an aging android phone for this task, €50 gets you something usable for basic entertainment purposes.

If they started doing what you are implying with the current level of their Ai, then they could file for bankruptcy a few months later. Serving clearly marked, but super well aimed ads is their best bet right now I would think.

With the dumpster fire that is ios 26, perhaps it won’t happen.

I don’t think most customers -for real- are disliking the new capabilities however limited they think they are. It’s just the force feeding and there are also security & performance concerns. All the while Windows is on an enshittification death spiral even without Ai.

I just use localsend.

The main argument is that mostly civilizations don’t become space faring or rather perhaps becoming space faring is close to impossible.

Being able to leave your home planet in a functional, safe & unimaginably fast aircraft is one thing, but pockets of civilizations surviving on other planets is another. No one has a clue how terraforming a planet would look like on a much more developed level, but it’s plausible it’s basically impossible to do without waiting thousands of years for your compatible life to establish a proper ecological cycle.

Basically no one has proven yet that it’s possible to build a small self sustaining habitat on any planet. Elon talks about going to Mars, or used to anyway, but this is an important problem. Can you imagine humans for real building a megastructure on Mars that can sustain a settlement? It feels way too problematic tbh, even if you had 10% of the World’s GDP to give it a good go.

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CS6 has better content aware filters than Affinity and those may never get updates now, since AI can do them better. This is not even an unreasonable take, but sub…

With ios 26 they f-ed up safari real bad & other browsers are worse performing / laggy even though they are also safari.

So yes, I trusted Apple to not mess with anything too important & they have not for the 5 years I’ve been using Apple products, but now that is over. Guess Android is back on the menu for my next device, or maybe even a Jolla Phone.

it’s like MacOS where if it’s a game not on Steam then you’re shit out of luck if there isn’t a Linux specific version?

No it’s not. I don’t even have Steam installed & play games just fine. You can use Bottles or Lutris to run the games, I recommend Bottles. The downside is that you’ll have to learn how to use these tools. For example you’ll not only need to fiddle with settings, but also with dependency dll files. Chatgpt can sometimes help & tell you which dlls are needed by which game. (at least when I asked it about Oblivion Remaster & Horizon Zero Dawn it knew)

Lutris has the advantage of community installers where you don’t have to figure things out, but it’s annoying that they’ll force you to log into Gog Galaxy and such for your downloaded installers & Lutris may not have a force offline sandboxed mode if you don’t want the software you run to report home.

If you decide to go with Bottles, one common rookie mistake is not giving permission to Bottles to the folders you install from and install to. You need to use Flatseal to do this nice and easy.

Heroic Games Launcher is another option, but it’s less reliable than bottles, but it has a more noob friendly GUI & you can just directly log into an EPIC account & install away without having to use the epic launcher, which can be quite great if you have a big Epic library.

Nvidia still has its pains, but it’s certainly daily drivable now.

Is there any way of telling which ones will and won’t run on Linux?

It’s very easy, if a game doesn’t have invasive data thieving anticheat, then it will run on Linux, otherwise it won’t. Sometimes it takes some fiddling, but pretty much anything at least a month old without anti will run.

There are not that many things I dislike hearing more than people saying “Formerly Twitter”. Either call it Twitter or X, but everyone knows what’s going on…

Ironically I think if Trump could get away with banning guns, now he probably would.

Would you really trust Iran not to use them?

How ancient is your arch install? Are you even on pipewire? That’s what you need for stable good quality bluetooth audio, pulse is awful by comparison.

Just go with Aurora (or Bluefin), that’s the way to go for tech illiterates. Most of these recommendations are 5 years out of date, like why recommend Ubuntu or Zorin, when those are almost the same as Mint.

Even in that super limited use case - you could just use a tablet for- basic keyboard and mouse interactions can be a problem.

There is the expectation that certain keybinds would work, that you could toggle natural scrolling, set a comfy cursor size, turn off acceleration and such.

Forget Wayland, the performance is inferior on ancient hardware, if it works at all. Postmarket OS is not a good idea either. Xfce likewise going to be too slow. Lxqt is borderline usable, but not great on this computer, so imo vanilla debian with Lxde and put some effort into theming, it can look modern enough and its the best option if someone wants lightweight without the ability to diy a WM based setup to their needs. And yes basic w98 like operation is possible.

When? Currently 240p youtube will produce frame drops on these. Typical javascript laden web pages can take minutes to render. I guess it largely depends on the websites you plan to visit. Phoronix will work ok.

Bunsenlab Linux…

Though don’t expect miracles, that cpu is too slow for the modern internet. It’s not usable for web browsing on any OS.