Like hard reset required “bricked” or dumpster bricked?

Android TV also has similar issues

I wouldn’t expect it to matter much, idle processes are pretty cheap.

…in a virtual machine

Doesn’t LTS change like twice a year nowadays?

Are you sure that’s not a monitor setting?

I think a lot of Brits pronounce it that way

Or Fedora

Does that laptop have an SSD?

This is a recent example of a problem that required manual intervention or the system would not boot after updates. This happens every now and then on arch, it’s why you should check arch news before updating.

Jokes on you, this happened to me on fedora with an nvidia gpu.

FreeBSD is closer to Unix than Linux is

Question is how “real” that support is - firmware updates matter and depend mostly on the chip manufacturer’s support.

By 8 years old even the newest devices will be out of software support and using EOL phones is not a particularly great idea for security. GOS’s security focus goes out the window if you use an old version with known vulnerabilities.

You can probably expect GOS support as long as Google supports the device, that is the main limitation. For the newer Pixels that is promised to be 7 years after release.

Going by this table, Pixel 6 is currently the oldest to get full GOS updates

That matches Google’s software support

This is my favourite

Don’t buy ASUS, they have a terrible security record. At this point I would trust only MikroTik and Ubiquiti.

They exist because they reproduce faster than they die. The fact that they are necessary for some other species is irrelavant to their existance. Such a claim only really makes sense for plants and animals that people farm.

Is it? Honestly I don’t care about it anymore, I’ve been opening everything from task bar icons and search for ages now.

You can just disable web search through the settings app now.