I don't like their default launcher either, it's indeed very iphon-y. I just installed another launcher and that's it. It's essentially Android so that's no problem.
I also disabled microg entirely, which is possible.
Murena does ship them to the USA, but with /e/OS preinstalled, which is great if you're into privacy and degoogling. I don't know how it works with US carriers though. Feel free to ask them on their forum, community.e.foundation
It's not that simple. I'm from Spain and the case with our own far-right party is different. They've lost momentum gradually, through multiple figureheads leaving or being kicked out, with the main guy still standing, but the scandals and the lack of actual policies proposed have definitely hurt them. The problem is that those who vote for them are exactly the ones who used to vote for the traditionally 'moderate' conservative party. Same as in France. So it's just a constant voter dance between the two parties. The actual number of right-wing voters hasn't changed much.
One can only hope that disenfranchisement as you call it (I call it chronic planned distraction) will eventually lead to some form of working-class rebellion, as it tends to happen historically.
But this will definitely hurt the European far-right. Le Pen was one of their main bastions and believe it or not, those types are not so easily replaceable. People lose interest quickly and they'll tire of the 'this was all a politically motivated complot' rhetoric. I've seen the same happen in my country. In fact, the right lost the last general election because they were so sure they were going to win, their campaign sucked.
I still think this is good news though. Should help the far-right lose momentum. But then again it's getting harder all the time to distinguish them from the 'moderate' right.
I can definitely recommend Librewolf over Vivaldi if you don't need crazy levels of customization. To me it was just much more than what I needed so I went with Librewolf which is also obviously a lot lighter.
Vivaldi being based on Chromium is pretty much the only criticizable thing about the project. Henry from Techlore interviewed their CEO not long ago, look it up, it was quite interesting.
Also, I am planning on moving to Norway in the next two to three years, would you mind if I messaged you privately with a couple questions?
Yo de Tenerife.