I did Gentoo from stage 1 too back in the day, it’s was a valuable learning experience for me, and those skills helped me to fix things when they went wrong down the track.

I’m on an Edge 30 Pro now, it’s the best smartphone I’ve ever used. I’ve had it for 2 years, and it was 1 year old when I bought it.

I skipped the Edge 40 and Edge 50 (they are pretty good, but not worth upgrading), this Edge 60 pro will likely be my next new phone.

I will wait until I can buy a lightly used one. I don’t buy new smartphones anymore. There are many people who upgrade their phone every year, and unlike iPhones, most android smartphones depreciate in value rapidly after they are even lightly used, so it’s easy to get a good deal on a 1 year old phone that’s in near-new condition.

Yep, not bricked. Just frozen.

There are two forms of bricked:

1. hard bricked. This is when a software change (eg, installing a custom firmware) caused the system to fail to boot, and there is no possible way to ever get it to run again.
2. soft bricked. Where a software change caused the failure to boot but there is a way (eg, reflashing using UART) to recover back to an older version that does boot.

Both are terms from the Phone modding community (ie, a phone has become as useful as a brick after this update) it’s quite hard to actually brick a modern PC.

If you take the plunge and switch to systemd-boot it’s worth it. It’s the only boot manager I’ve tried in the last decade that feels like an upgrade from GRUB.

Ncdu is my go-to tool. Can’t live without it on the servers I administer. However from this thread I’ve also learned about gdu, diskonaut and du-dust that I need to check out.

I like Strawberry, for two reasons:

• It was the first player I found that supported playing directly to a pipewire sink, without going through the Pulseaudio compatibility layer.

• It can stream hi res FLAC files from Tidal.

Mandriva is the new kid on the block. Real classic Linux users will remember Mandrake.