Iirc they just passed something that enforced the opposite to chat control to stop the constant reintroduction of the same over reaching law

The unfortunate major weakness of Democratic governments is that all major decisions must be deliberated upon, this stops responses from happening during crises in a timely manner. Granted I will say that the infighting in the EU definetly exasperated the issue tenfold.

I tend to think about Sanchez in the same light as macron, fairly respectable foreign policy but about the average level of internal policy. Where the average today is something that is just good enough for there is not prolonged massive resistance.

Have you considered the macbook neo, it’s not a Linux machine, but it is probably the cheapest machine that fits the glorified tablet footprint. I don’t understand the draw to something that basic and lightweight, but if it mattered to me I would probably go with that. Otherwise, as others have pointed out, some flavor of Linux will run on just about anything that isn’t ARM at this point, and I wouldn’t be surprised if an old netbook would just work for your use case with a lightweight distro.

It is slightly outside of the scope of the article, but it is interesting that the article doesn’t talk about the strait not being closed to China, unless it was just posturing, I have seen quite a few articles covering safe passage for vessels who are enemies of america & israel, including 2 Chinese tankers.

and the third has stated they will not implement age attestation methods.

Do you have a source l, I went looking earlier and couldn’t find anything

I don’t think they were referring to Linux in general, I think it was specifically talking about Fedora

If I were to take a guess, it is because it requires you to do software installation via CLI. If you are looking for a distro with a software store, I would say fedora or lmde is the move

I can’t help you there, I don’t personally use cachy I am just making assumptions based upon what I have heard and how it works on other distros

Packages != kernel, so probably not. I don’t know how power usery you want to be, if fine with some tinkering then staying with arch makes sense and as I said in the prior post I recommend endeavoros. If you want no tinkering, kubuntu is fine I would just lookup snaps and see what you are getting yourself into, and if that turns you away I would recommend mint lmde.

Some quick googling tells me that their optimized packages require 12th gen or newer, so that is likely what was messing you up. here is the link I found if you are interested, but I think your hardware is just to old.

I don’t know how old your hardware is, but iirc cachyos’s kernel specifically doesn’t support older hardware, so it could be that it is just too old. If I were you I would try out endeavoros if you can deal with a little more technical package management or you could use the base arch kernel on cachy. Of course your switch to kubuntu should continue to work assuming it was a kernel issue, I just don’t like canonicals vision.

The systemd thing was just a header, I don’t disagree that it is a step towards age verification, but as far as I am concerned, there is no reason to take drastic measures until that header is actually used in the init system. Your earlier idea of determining the distros position I think will be a better metric as the distro is the more likely entity that will try to implement it.

As an aside, I actually like the systemd header since it will essentially standardize the place for age attestation which assuming your distro doesn’t stop you, you could just pipe some bogus birthday into the field. This is of course assuming the init system doesn’t implement the attestation mechanism.

Iirc manjaro changes the package management to not be rolling release, I think you would have to add back in the base arch repos and risk versioning issues.

I can’t agree that there are none, there are just few. If I was in the market for a midrange laptop at the moment I would probably go with this idea pad which should be good for the basics and should be able to do productivity tasks, albeit slowly: definetly not what I would call e-waste

Imo $500-700 is squarely midrange when it comes to laptops, the low end is populated with the e-waste that is shitty $200-300 HP laptops

The ye olde swiss bridge strategy.

I always laugh when I hear about meta’s end to end encryption because it isn’t remotely true in the sense that people would care about from a privacy standpoint. I know it is the case for messenger, I have not confirmed for other meta services, but in messenger the messages are encrypted in the way you would expect with the one big caveat being that meta stores your private keys on their servers. Iiirc meta explained that it is still e2e because they don’t unencrypt it which I find hilarious.

I don’t know what a x-kiosk is, that might work, in any case if someone is on gnome or KDE, any solutions that rely on x11 will be deprecated in 2 & 3 major versions respectively

That is operating under the assumption that you aren’t using Wayland, as far as I could determine after a few hours of tinkering the only way to get a remote desktop to work under Wayland is by using an app that queries the xdg portal since Wayland’s harden permissions will stop xwayland based remote desktop solutions.

I use rustdesk over LAN for my remote desktop which has been rather stable and quick, although I don’t know the exact protocol that it uses, so if rdp is necessary I wouldn’t know of that is satisfactory for op’s needs.