With articles like this I wouldn't recommend them.

I prefer LGBTQIA-bin, my computer was in the closet for 10 years so the git version takes too long to compile

If your really feeling paranoid go ahead and use TOR browser to login to lemmy. Assuming they dont block TOR connections here I’ve never tried.

.w*rld blocks Tor a lot of times, .ml hexbear lemmygrad.ml do not

I'm using a 6 pro and it works fine

For Uni I use Typst for most documents nowadays and sometimes LibreOffice. If I need to open a .docx I use LibreOffice for that as well. It does fuck up the formatting sometimes though so if you have an annoying professor that requires .docx files perfectly formatted you might need to use Word in a VM or a lab computer if they're available.

Teams works on Firefox so I just use it there (there's also an extension that lets you install PWAs using Firefox so you can do that to Teams as well).

For Excel, I don't use it so I'm not sure what features you need and whether LibreOffice has all of them.

R works fine on Linux.

Well the election ended so there's nothing to argue about right now

Well in Idaho, just about everyone I know who lives there supports Israel. And in Texas there are a bunch of people criticizing Kamala and our state's Democratic candidate for Senator for being radically pro-Hamas.

They organize in ways that make a bigger impact to the community than voting for one of two fascists.

A lot of people say it's good although personally it hasn't been a huge improvement for me, I'm guessing there's certain hardware-software integration in macOS and software optimizations that contributes to the battery life that isn't happening in Linux. It's dying less quickly than my HP laptop though. I also tend to not close stuff so that may be a problem.

So now we're going to have AI training other AIs

What did I say in my comment that isn't true, and do you have an actually convincing argument for that besides calling me a troll?

To answer your question, I joined Lemmy when it was a niche open source project then left because nothing was happening until the mass migration happened