first off, there is no spyware shipped with iOS, iOS is the spyware. aside from apple being repeatedly caught lying about the extent of its spying, the convoluted and cumbersome iCloud decoupling with the unencrypted backups and the fact that you have a covert peer-to-peer network running on your own hardware that you can’t turn off or opt out of should be more than enough to give those fucks zero benefit of doubt.

second, if you’ve been on iOS since the iPhone X days, you have no idea what’s possible on this side of the fence. that’s why I’m suggesting getting a cheap, yet capable, used phone and figuring out things without breaking the budget. you could get a flagship pixel or whatnot for the same purpose, but this is the beauty of android - a $50 phone runs the same software as a $1000 one.

I assure you, you’re plenty safe and secure with a regular, supported lineageOS build, unless you’re pursued by nation-state actors and such. the postmarketOS and friends note was to illustrate the plethora of options you got with the same piece of hardware; none of them are ready for prime time.

I like the list, it purports you got a lot of things in there.

I guess you missed the 85% of my post that lists actual, actionable information pertaining to OP’s question, that in addition to my take on it (which, in case it’s not visible from orbit, is HELL NO) offers a solution to OP’s problem (“unsupported phone”) for a twentieth of their budget.

I also see you contributing dick to said question.

I guess there’s your mistake - there has to be a right and wrong and we should all be on one side of it.

this is my take on “should I spend a THOUSAND+ bucks/pounds/feathers” on an easily breakable/losable/stealable slab of glass. in a community called “frugal”.

phone still works, apps get updates, they don’t magically disolve in thin air when there’s no more updates.

so you got a phone that works for you but you still want to replace it because… idk, just 'cause.

you could spring for an used, ex-flasgship phone that was abandoned by its brand but still has lineageOS support. e.g. Poco F1 or Oneplus 6T fit that bill. I can get em locally in the $50-$100 region. that thing has a fast SDM845, 8 GB RAM, full LineageOS support and even postmarketOS, Mobian and Ubuntu touch support, you can swap the batteries, etc.

so for like 5% of your budget, you get a new toy to play with and test what life is like on the other side of the fence and possibly gradually ween yourself off the corpo spyware. so, if it scratches your itch for that kinda money, I’d call that frugal.

it’s using mpv under the hood, so I guess it should be able to play audio headless. I’m using allcast to cast to it and control it.

I’m using macast as a media renderer, for video and audio. don’t know if there’s a docker container for it.

because part of its name forms the word for the female canine and lemmy devs are very anti that

all the lols at removedat awesome

ubuntu because everything works.

in case you can’t stand the snap business go fedora, add rpmfusion and poke around. if everything works, you’re set.

two possible issues with resume from sleep. if your wifi won’t come back, use the script from t2linux. if your laptop won’t wake up expeditiously (takes a while), come back here and ping me and I’ll dig up the the script.

stay away from mints and xfces and friends as you need wayland (so, Plasma or Gnome) for fractional scaling, gestures, seamless dock/undock, etc.

because they used to be special. “I run linux”, matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, “I’m in”, awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker…

but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain’t special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.

my annoyance with his output aside, can we make it so that you can’t use “beautiful” on your own shit? others can say your stuff is, you can’t go “I created a beautiful xy”.

looks easy enough, will try, thank you.

tbh, looked at the thing some while back and noped out when I saw “java” in there; absolutely irrational, I know - just can’t stand the thing. cool that there’s an alternative.

to each his own, but I can’t stand this clown. he desperately wants to come off as this wise, cranky, tell-it-like-it-is one-of-the-guys, but the often cretinous takes permeating his works are off-putting. the evil elites in charge of opensource not thinking about people with mech drives in 2024, the abject “horror” that’s systemd, his “helpful” notes on bugs in five year old software, for my money the dude can get bent.

so when he likes something it immediately prompts me to do the inverse; not that it’s needed in the case of MX.

so there are still sales.

don’t know about that latitude, but for the thinkpad you’d do well to disable the nvidia graphics in BIOS setup. intel graphics is adequate for daily stuff and you can actually use the thing as a mobile device i.e. on battery,

it’s a false dichotomy. the issue is not whether you have something to hide, as this “hiding” implies something sinister, the issue is you deciding what you share.

when I’m not blasting the contents of my morning’s bowel movements across all my social profiles, that don’t mean I’m hiding it, it means I haven’t decided to share it. and I won’t allow my government, service provider, software or hardware to do it for me.

mint uses X11 which should be considered legacy at this point. wayland (Gnome, Plasma) has all the touch and dock/undock and rotate and pen etc goodies. try it out from a liveUSB and decide for yourself.