Appreciate your post, nice to see people having level takes for something. I normally go through all my browser settings anyway during setup so a lot of the technical issues people were having I see as nonissue, UNLESS it gets added in during an update (where I wouldn’t notice) and is opt-out, not opt-in. It’s a good recommend for new users who aren’t super tech savvy and just need a plug and play.

Got one of his phones a while back and it was just a pixel 4 with lineageOS and I think MicroG on it. If you’ve got the funds listen to that other guy and get a modern pixel with graphene

On the spectrum of convenience vs privacy I think this is closest to the sweet spot on the side of convenience. Use a commercial “monitor” (TV that doesn’t require smart features to work). The closest to the middle on the side of privacy is setting a PC up with your TV logged in to all your streaming services.

Do you run your own commands or use a program? I recently started using Windows Shut Up! and Winhance and that appears to be a good one two combo for mostly stripping bloat and blocking telemetry.

Guns and ammunition

Physical media and ways of accessing it (usb disc drive for example)

Older laptops and vehicles if you’re in the market

Maybe it’s so great that the users are content enough to not brag about it unprompted? Which would be very strange for Linux

LTT actually threw a steam machine competitor build video together on YouTube, might be of interest to you.

It’s not as bad as Google but still pretty terrible. I too would like to see a comprehensive list on Apple issues.