Already registered! I just happen to be visiting Berlin with my girlfriend on that day so I'll try and clear out some inventory (depends on the size of our backpacks and the amount we can take on the train). Thank you for organizing!
I'm on GrapheneOS and running the official Pixel Camera app from Play Store with network disabled. Everything works great and the photos look exactly like on a stock system.
IIRC, Steve Jobs had three iPhones at his speaker desk to switch between at moment's notice. I believe he did that once after a wallpaper didn't apply correctly and was instead black.
I agree with the GH issues. Seems like every popular project gets hugged to death with them. You can either be closing them at light's speed like `kovidgoyal` or you can just roll with it like Flutter, VS Code, or Typescript.
I bought mine as part of one of the first two batches. When the 12th gen Intel came out I upgraded for about 40% of the price I'd pay for a similarly specced laptop in my country.
I installed XFCE desktop on Manjaro (I believe) on my grandma's computer that I bought second-hand a couple years ago for about $60 (i5 6th gen, 8 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD). There have been zero issues. Windows was a nightmare because it was constantly breaking or needing an update and Macs would be wasted money in this case. The usage is pretty light: downloading and sharing photos from a camera, YouTube, email, news, some light spreadsheet accounting, and that's about it. Neither of my grandparents are tech-savvy (my grandpa still uses a feature) and yet they both learned all, that they need, in the afternoon I installed the computer. Zero regrets going for XFCE (or anything that can be stripped down just to the features they need) and buying a cheap computer. Going Windows → Manjaro/XFCE reduced tech support calls to me from 1–2× a month to once per year.
Similar experience for me with my mom. I set her up with a desktop machine running Pop_OS! with automatic updates. I did some minor hackery to get Windows' FreeCell working on it because she cares a lot about that.
I installed tailscale for remote support, but haven't had cause to use it.
In general it's working fantastically.
The only issue is that the USB WiFi adapter drops out rather frequently. So my one hardware concession will be to replace it with one known to be more reliable under Linux. [0]
[0] I know sometimes this can be fixed by choosing a more appropriate driver and/or Bluetooth device settings, but it's not something on which I want to spend a lot of time or headspace.
