They are Apples and Oranges

It can be affordable if you go used.

This a can versus should. You can do this but I would strongly discourage it. I would strongly recommend buying a proper device with Mimo and multiple reasonably sized antennas.

You are going to hate Trigonometry and Calculus

The queen of England is dead

I have a “budget” device from 2019. It runs Lineage OS and works fine.

Also you are the product

Buy a phone not tied to a carrier

It is better than Wire and cryptography wise it is very solid

What’s wrong with 4Gb? It works fine for light usage and you can enable swap to a SSD for when you want something a little memory hungry like a lot of tabs.

Get an SSD as it will make your life way better

That’s a reasonable machine. You probably could use anything but if you want lighter weight you could use Xfce4. If it is a laptop you could use stock gnome with some swap as a backup to prevent OOM

A screenshot of Reddit

Nice cube

The first one allows Flatseal to edit the permissions of Flatpak apps including itself.

System folder access allows a app to read the filesystem. (But not system internals)

System settings access allows the app to change settings

So the only concerning one is Xournal. However, I happen to know that it doesn’t support XDG portals which is how apps ask for permissions to files so it needs full file access. As for the system settings I have no idea.

They mean that the app has that permission. It is good that they let the user know the apps capabilities

It doesn’t use plain text. It is end to end encrypted but that isn’t what this “issue” is

It is the same concept. Once your machine is pwded you are screwed

And Wayland. Xorg is a complete and utter mess

Unless you have root