not familiar with the usability issues that you need X11 for, but fedora has spins for xfce, cinnamon, etc. that are gonna keep X11 around for a long time.

my god, it’s beautifully shot! day, night, interior, static, action - you can find movies made today who can’t pull this off

holup - you shut down the laptop and in such a state it drains the battery?! I mean, that’s so outside of the OS’ functionality, it don’t matter which one you got. the only sensible conclusion is that shutting down the laptop in debian doesn’t turn it off, there are no other explanations.

fedora is more modern by way of kernels and DEs and whatnot, but I’ve looked up your hardware, that’s an 8th gen i5/i7, that’s plently supported even in old bookworm.

one thing to lookup is in BIOS, my T480s (same generation) had a power management setting in BIOS that was either Windows or Linux, so make sure yours is set correctly.

edit: to add, the other issue, standby, blows on any hardware I’ve tried so what you need to do is implement suspend-then-hibernate by setting up a swap file that’s RAM + 4 GB (or RAM * 1.5, if you run zram) and then enabling first hibernation and then configuring suspend-then-hibernate. so in that setup, your laptop sleeps normally, and if you don’t touch it in say an hour, it dumps the RAM to the SSD and powers off. when you power it on, it restores from swap and that’s faster than cold boot and your shit is how you left it.

naturally, alla that’s pointless until you fix issue #1, the drain when it’s supposedly off.

“rebooting” is not a thing ova here. yeah, you can accomplish that but that’s not what you want. utilising something like InputRemapper + e.g. Plasma shortcuts, you can launch a big-picture UI, like steam or plama-bigscreen when it’s ready or somesuch, when you press a key combo on the controller or mouse or keyboard or any combination thereof.

first off, there is no spyware shipped with iOS, iOS is the spyware. aside from apple being repeatedly caught lying about the extent of its spying, the convoluted and cumbersome iCloud decoupling with the unencrypted backups and the fact that you have a covert peer-to-peer network running on your own hardware that you can’t turn off or opt out of should be more than enough to give those fucks zero benefit of doubt.

second, if you’ve been on iOS since the iPhone X days, you have no idea what’s possible on this side of the fence. that’s why I’m suggesting getting a cheap, yet capable, used phone and figuring out things without breaking the budget. you could get a flagship pixel or whatnot for the same purpose, but this is the beauty of android - a $50 phone runs the same software as a $1000 one.

I assure you, you’re plenty safe and secure with a regular, supported lineageOS build, unless you’re pursued by nation-state actors and such. the postmarketOS and friends note was to illustrate the plethora of options you got with the same piece of hardware; none of them are ready for prime time.

I like the list, it purports you got a lot of things in there.

I guess you missed the 85% of my post that lists actual, actionable information pertaining to OP’s question, that in addition to my take on it (which, in case it’s not visible from orbit, is HELL NO) offers a solution to OP’s problem (“unsupported phone”) for a twentieth of their budget.

I also see you contributing dick to said question.

I guess there’s your mistake - there has to be a right and wrong and we should all be on one side of it.

this is my take on “should I spend a THOUSAND+ bucks/pounds/feathers” on an easily breakable/losable/stealable slab of glass. in a community called “frugal”.

phone still works, apps get updates, they don’t magically disolve in thin air when there’s no more updates.

so you got a phone that works for you but you still want to replace it because… idk, just 'cause.

you could spring for an used, ex-flasgship phone that was abandoned by its brand but still has lineageOS support. e.g. Poco F1 or Oneplus 6T fit that bill. I can get em locally in the $50-$100 region. that thing has a fast SDM845, 8 GB RAM, full LineageOS support and even postmarketOS, Mobian and Ubuntu touch support, you can swap the batteries, etc.

so for like 5% of your budget, you get a new toy to play with and test what life is like on the other side of the fence and possibly gradually ween yourself off the corpo spyware. so, if it scratches your itch for that kinda money, I’d call that frugal.

it’s using mpv under the hood, so I guess it should be able to play audio headless. I’m using allcast to cast to it and control it.

I’m using macast as a media renderer, for video and audio. don’t know if there’s a docker container for it.

because part of its name forms the word for the female canine and lemmy devs are very anti that

ubuntu because everything works.

in case you can’t stand the snap business go fedora, add rpmfusion and poke around. if everything works, you’re set.

two possible issues with resume from sleep. if your wifi won’t come back, use the script from t2linux. if your laptop won’t wake up expeditiously (takes a while), come back here and ping me and I’ll dig up the the script.

stay away from mints and xfces and friends as you need wayland (so, Plasma or Gnome) for fractional scaling, gestures, seamless dock/undock, etc.

because they used to be special. “I run linux”, matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, “I’m in”, awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker…

but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain’t special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.

my annoyance with his output aside, can we make it so that you can’t use “beautiful” on your own shit? others can say your stuff is, you can’t go “I created a beautiful xy”.

looks easy enough, will try, thank you.

tbh, looked at the thing some while back and noped out when I saw “java” in there; absolutely irrational, I know - just can’t stand the thing. cool that there’s an alternative.

I would like nothing more (well, there’s a few things I’d like more, but for the purposes of this we’ll let it stand) than for this fucker to get hurt and for this shit business to implode.

but nothing close to that is happening. sales that are lower than before indicate that there are still sales, nazi sled image notwithstanding. the P/E multiple is still through the roof. there aren’t liquidity issues apparent.

this might be an indication that things might be moving the right way, but at present, nothing is “collapsing”.

and even if alla that somehow materializes, this doesn’t even touch the fucker in the slightest, it is inconceivable how much he’s got.

so, this is a cope article.

the true value is in discarded laptops, skylake or newer. a quick search in my local marketplace finds double-digits of those under $40, with busted screens and other failings, which aren’t important for e.g. headless deployment.

they got low-power capable CPUs to boot, you get a shitton of connectivity, storage options, etc. power brick included (gotta buy one for a raspi) and you don’t dick around with arm64 packages and SD cards. if you don’t need video decoding, you can go even older.

woudn’t put too much trust in recommendations from dudes that rely on you constantly buying new shit, as their income depends on it.

if you see nothing wrong with asking for an alternative to films DOCUMENTING reality, I don’t know what to tell you.

also, you used the L-word, so obligatory downvote.

yeah, this is a “cope” article from dudes I’ve never heard of before. nothing is collapsing, the shit is still worth insane multiples of P/E, they still sell HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of model 3s (close to 400K per annum) and this joke of a “journalist” conflates the unpopularity of the (higly impractical and niche) cybertruck with “teslas”.