I dropped out recently but I still remember how they required use of LLMs in the useless intro classes for some assignments and the other assignments were also busywork so everyone used AI. The final presentations all contained multiple citations to OpenAI and Copilot for most of the pictures used.

Most 3d printer firmwares run on a microcontroller without Linux.

I have a different provider but in case you didn’t know you do need to have google play services installed with network access to set up an eSIM. You can delete it afterwards. I just used the qr code in the email from my cell provider to avoid having to install an app.

NixOS unstable. I like being able to define my system as code. I also don’t need that high of stability and would rather have more up to date software in most cases. I have thought about using stable releases for things like basic http and DNS servers but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Gcompat is not very effective but most open source software works with minimal patching.

Both slicers work fine but there are some dpi scaling issues in my experience (both Orca and Prusa) on 4k monitors.

Almost everything that can be is: laptops, desktop, servers (LUKS), phone (grapheneos)

email, domain names, VPN

mine XMR on a few computers

I don’t work but I use a script using w3m to print HTML as text. You can find those in the aerc repo.

aerc with mbsync and msmtp and neovim for composing

I don’t really care about phones and my parents give me their old iPhones for free.

App images don’t work on alpine. Use flat pack or run the app image in a chroot

For purely just privacy I would say custom rom android > iphone > stock android > samsung android.