Proton is still a for-profit company and has shareholders who expect to to make money. The change is that the largest shareholder of the for-profit company is now a separate non-profit organization. It is still a positive move, but not entirely what the marketing makes it seem.
Fedora will not get Plasma 6 until 40 releases next month in April.
This is great timing because Microsoft is killing support for my Windows Mixed Reality headset. Ironically, Sony will have better PC VR support than Microsoft.
Thunder is my favorite with Voyager a close second.
Curious if these function adequately in place of an android phone for a daily driver.
No. The battery life is bad, it is slow, and the camera is comparable to a 15 year old flip phone. It is fun to play with, but both the hardware and software need to improve before I could use it as my only phone.
If you only listen to podcasts on your phone, I can highly recommend AntennaPod. It is free and open source. I have been using it for around 6 months now since Pocket Casts increased from $10 to $40 per year.
This was a false rumor. Asus has issued a press release confirming that the Zenfone line will continue.
This is the FOSS community and neither Sync nor Boost are open source.
Sony says hi :)
A GitHub issue was opened for Syncthing-Fork, so it will be worth watching that to know whether it will continue to be supported.