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My daily driver is a 10yo Dell business laptop. Before that I ran a similarly aged Lenovo. I run mint.

In my experience, the amount of ram and an SSD are the biggest contributors to how good the performance feels. Running mint on 4G is possible, but performance is comprised. 8G is perfectly fine most of the time. 16G (my current setup) is peachy keen. I’m astounded what I can do in blender on a 10yo machine.

That said, if you can afford one (and they operate in your country - they don’t here), then grab a framework, like others have said. If that’s not an option, then add some ram and an SSD.

My 2c.

Nextcloud.

It depends, but probably. I use 5-10yo laptops running Debian.

Google’s device, not yours. You don’t own it unless you have sole root privileges.

If only it worked on current generation hardware other than pixel and, iirc, fairphone.

I use it, as both a reader and a publisher, but rss (in particular) could do with an update.

Perhaps I’m too tired to understand your meaning here (it’s late), but blockchain isn’t crypto currency. It’s a distributed ledger, and was around long before crypto. It’s not completely immutable either as the hard fork of Ethereum proved.

Blockchain could be used to record energy transactions, but the question is why would you want to? What benefit does it add?

Btw homeowners in parts of Australia are already receiving credits for the excess solar power they generate. There’s no need to manufacture a new system to enable that functionality.

Once again, I’m tired. Perhaps I’ve misunderstood your reasoning.

A15 + 5g both have a headphone jack and can be unlocked apparently. Probably the A25 versions too.

And how many are current? Apart from the pixels, there’s nothing available where I live unless you buy second-hand (which has issues of its own).

Apart from the pixels, which current range of phones is supported?

That’s great if you have one of the handful of phones supported, but for the rest of us, not so much.

Commodore going bankrupt.

Last time I checked the documentation (more than a year ago) the ‘-’ flag was supposed to work, but in practice the results can be unpredictable. Google honours the flag, but DDG is a bit of a mixed bag.

My chief complaint about DDG is excluding a term from a query rarely works. The “-” tag is not reliable.