Linux running on the desktop in 2025 is helped immensely by everything being web based. So long as you have a browser you are fine for a lot of general computing.
The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.
Getting a banking app, or Uber or Facebook Messenger to work on a Linux phone is going to be a massive pain in the ass (ignoring the rest of the OS which is definitely not even close to useable for the general public).
I would love a Linux phone but we are so far away.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or not but perhaps you don't remember when the biggest "stars" on tiktok were 15 year olds dancing in bikinis....
I mean most don't go to their PhDs because it is effectively training for being an academic. Except there are very few jobs for academics so you'll be an adjunct professor getting paid poverty wages.
Kagi does provide a good experience but it can never replace the free search engines. It relies pretty heavily on Google's search API it just allows you to massage the results with tools Google took away.
Ok, but who is providing the loans for the buy out. When they default on the debt someone or some thing is not getting paid. If that were the case eventually no company would loan money for a leveraged but out right?
Unfortunately from a business perspective it's very hard to argue for this stuff since goodwill doesn't have a definable dollar amount but the engineering time to extract this and getting it working extremely definitely has a cost.
The back end of this smart crap is very likely inextricably intertwined with Google's internal services.
Remember Google exists to harvest data which means the important part of this thermostat is not being a thermostat but recording when you're home, what temperature it is, if you're awake etc etc.
Most of the older stuff is really energy inefficient. That said they have looser tolerances so they break less and keep on chugging.
The new stuff has tighter tolerances and is made to reduce cost. These powers combined make them shit.
The worst part is that in a lot of cases paying more won't actually get you out of the trash. They just strap smart garbage to the cheap shit. You have to pay 5 to 10 times the amount for an actual decent appliance (ie one that's just good at doing what it is supposed to do) and even then it's a gamble.
Over time the unions have been hollowed out and the Democratic party has increasing had an image problem.
These lower workers think that the Democrats are only pandering to "woke" problems which that population obviously doesn't think affect them(and in some cases is actually detrimental).
This is not really true but it is what they think and it's one of the reasons Trump does so well in that demographic regardless of what he does.
I'm saying there isn't a religion that doesn't force it's shit on people.
So basically you're fine with supporting things that hurt others just so long as you're left alone.