I have a laptop running Zorin I'm probably going to flip to Mint if the new release doesn't fix my stuttering issues otherwise I had the same experience. Also bazzite on an AMD desktop and my steam deck are a breeze to use.

All depends on what Microsoft allows - my Thinkpad with a Ryzen 2500u Pro has a TPM but they blanket blocked "Ryzen 2500" because the non pro doesn't always have a TPM.

Sure. They block older generation CPUs too regardless of TPM 2.0 support. There's just a possibility for some newer CPU models.

For kicks I put Windows 11 on one of my retro laptops - a dell e6500 with 8gb of ram and it ran super well. I don't think it meets the tpm v2 requirements but it's wild we can't virtualize a decent tpm.

Many motherboards have builtin software TPM

I've noted a few tools seem to have this now if you dig into their settings. vscode has yolo mode and cursor seemed to have something as well. wild

I for one am up to the idea of breaking android off Google due to the same reasons of chrome - conflict of interest since Google is an advertising company.

If you're being serious, you're in for a rude awakening. POTS lines are dead and being replaced with VOIP and VoIP to pots modems on the premise. lots of cities have already started to grub the copper out and replaced it a long time ago with fiber.

I get what you are saying but POTS in my location is still copper. I know because I dug it up when putting in a cattle guard. I will have to splice it back together and run it somewhere other than under my driveway which I had paved. 811 marked it as disco/not-in-use. The telco accidentally leaked their plans to run fiber everywhere so I might wait for them to do that. If it ends up being VoIP then maybe I would still have SMS capability for poor mans 2FA? Maybe the competition will drive the cost of my existing fiber down. To userbinator's point the end result will be no more options to install applications. It would just be a phone. I would be back to good old fashioned NSA voice monitoring.

Changing the implementation but not the interface is exactly the point. It doesn't matter how it's delivered; it's just a phone line for voice calls.

Way back last fm had a plugin for Spotify and I started finding new music at a rate I haven't since downloading peoples Napster libraries when I wanted just one song, figuring they liked stuff I had a probability of liking as well.

I see a lot of people using M710 mini desktops - I think you can pop a pcie 10gbe card in and a m.2 SATA card and 3d print a disk stand?

Dell R500 series is very good for dense storage at low costs if you lean to SATA or NL-SAS

I'd really dig a version of this with a Ryzen AI chip and 128gb of ram.

I'm moving to Lenovo tiny m75q series for now due to low idle power and heat generated.

How much TDP and does it have 8+ sata with 10Gbe?