afaik airtags are apple-proprietary, so someone would need to reverse-engineer them first. that's probably not a small ask. i haven't personally looked into it though, so here's hoping! 🤞

Yup! Kali is a rolling distro built on Debian Testing, not Stable, annual releases. It can be used as a desktop OS, but still has pen testing and other security tools as their main focus

I intend to get a Fairphone 5 or 6 and test-drive Ubuntu Touch on it, hoping to daily drive it... but it's all theoretical at this point. If I can't get a real Linux distro to do everything I want reliably, Lineage OS is my fallback plan. I believe in the Fairphone mission, so that'll be my next hardware purchase either way

No thanks; I'll stick with LibreOffice.

(sorry, I just couldn't resist...)

RustDesk (remote desktop control) and Barriers (KVM-like server to control my laptop screen from my desktop just by moving mouse to that screen). Both of these are tightly integrated in my daily workflow and would be a hard loss.

There's a modern fork of Barriers but I haven't been able to get it working cross-platform yet. I know RustDesk is actively working to complete wayland support, but it's not quite there yet.

ZeroTier might suit your use case. It's super easy to setup.

In the US I think the term you're looking for is "republican".

For some reason, I don't think the supreme court would agree with that figure.

I run kubuntu on a 2012 Intel i5 MBP and it runs like a champ. everything works perfectly, including mic, speakers, webcam... even minor details like the hardware buttons to turn brightness and volume up/down worked straight out of the box with no fuss.

+1 for Cloudflare.

That said, there are a number of folks rightfully concerned about the sheer mass of information Cliudflare has access to through their Content Delivery Network (their primary service). This raises potential privacy concerns, especially for self-hosters, who tend to prefer not to rely too heavily on any one large company. However, you don't actually have to use their CDN service to make use of their minimally-priced Registrar functionality, and personally I really appreciate the services they offer. Their free tier is really impressive, and incredibly useful.

I got far enough on pixelfed.social to confirm my email address, now I just get a blank blue screen. Not an encouraging first impression. Perhaps I tried to join during a media-caused mad rush or something?

I discovered and installed it a long time ago, but it won't run on my SO's old phone and I haven't been able to convince anyone else I know to help me test it. So, I love the concept but can't vouch for its usability. Widespread user adoption is always an issue with mew privacy or security tech.