It's not hard at all. The real problem is that like 90% of hardware makers don't allow you to unlock your bootloader. And every year it becomes less and less common. Chinese phones used to be amazing, because you could just slap a good clean rom on amazing hardware. Nowadays (due to pressure by the ccp from what I gather) most of them do not allow bootloader unlocking anymore. Or they allow it only using insane requirements (100+ day active user in good standing on their Chinese support forum, only 100 unlocks/day, first come first served at 1am Beijing time, etc etc...)

And without an unlocked bootloader, you can do jack shit with your phone. Hence why pixel phones are so liked for custom roms. They unlock straight out of the box, no questions asked, no weird hoops to jump through.

How vivaldi isn't more popular with tech users that want to use chromium totally eludes me. The browser is super moddeable and the devs have so far been nothing but super open and correct to their community. I don't think there's been a single vivaldi "scandal" of note. It literally opera before that went down the drain, and is a better browser on top.

The whole "it's not open source" mantra has also been thoroughly addressed.

Also don't get me started on the brave love. It feels astroturfed. I do not get how you can genuinely shill that browser...

Born on January first 1900. Undefined gender.

Yeah, don't answer truthfully. My favorite food has been a waterslide for ages.

Fuck epic games, but I was happy I didn't have to buy it a second time on steam to play it with my kid.

I'm just contemplating to get the mobile version of Subnautica.

But can I still buy the OG subnautica?

I ran Ubuntu and arch on it. The lag is noticeable even in Firefox with just 5-6 tabs open. 8GB ram and an ssd. Open multiple apps and it becomes very very noticeable.

Audio, sure, I have no experience with that, no argument from me there.

But you claimed your vintage cpu is enough for most people. Most people ain't audio engineers. Most people would immediately notice a smoothness difference between an m1 max and your vintage cpu. There is no way you don't notice a difference in (non audio maybe) regular browsing (not just one tab, but many) and multitasking, stop lying to win a useless internet argument.

I didn't say you can't game on it. You just can't claim it can keep up with modern cpus.

I still doubt it would be a pleasant experience. I only do office type work on the n150 device. It's still laggy AF compared to any modern mid-range cpu. (eg my i5 (?) 8600 at home, which is also already of respectable age, is a lot smoother for non-gaming use.)

But I guess your point (partially) stands, Johnny granddad won't notice when he checks the news and weather in the morning.

Yeah no, calling cap on that.

It'll run most indies and triple A game from 6-7y ago.

It'll be a real bottle neck for recent games. And especially for the only game that truly matters, rimworld.

I am running an n150 on a secondary mini pc. On paper it's twice as fast as your cpu. It drives me crazy how slow it can be at times when running multiple tabs or apps at the same time. You're delusional if you think your cpu is still up to snuff in 2025

Most of Taiwan? /doubt

Back that up with some proof and polls from neutral (non ccp or US) sources