It’s not an entire OS, just an app that you can use to read ebooks with lots of features.

https://github.com/koreader/koreader

“A Song of Ice and Fire” if you can accept that the last books will never be written

Link previews happen if you hold click on a link or choose it in the right click menu. By default it shows pretty much just the title of the page and a banner asking you to enable ai summaries.

It’s kinda annoying, but not because of the ai. And you can easily disable it

That’s the old way to support calls. The new way is MatrixRTC/Livekit. Not all clients support it yet, but the website says commet supports that too.

Why framework specifically? TSMC makes the chips for all AMD/Apple CPUs and all Nvidia/AMD/Intel/Apple GPUs.

What do we know about
The unknown knowns
The things we don’t know we know?

You don’t need Thunderbolt for Displayport alt mode. It’s a separate spec that can also be implemented independently. I have a dock that’s not Thunderbolt but supports DP alt mode.

But Thunderbolt has some additional stuff too

Last I heard Cinnamon does not have stable Wayland support yet. One of the reasons Wayland was made is because multi-screen support on the old X11 is an ugly hack. Unlike wayland, it doesn’t play well with screens of different resolutions, refresh rates, adaptive sync compatibility or HDR.

Mint isn’t wayland yet and X11 does not support adaptive sync if multiple monitors are connected

No. The Rust code in the kernel is GPLv2 just like the rest of the kernel. The licence of the compiler has nothing to do with that, that’s nonsense Rust haters make up.

You can argue against independent projects like the Rust coreutils not using a copyleft license, but that has nothing to do with Rust or the kernel. There are independent C projects without non-copyleft licenses too.

“USB4” (not USB 4.0) released in 2019 and “USB4 Version 2.0” (not USB 4.1) released in 2022.

A DDoS that brings down the biggest(?) DDoS protection provider?

Both Firefox (see about:unloads) & Chromium have a feature to unload old tabs when running low on memory. On session restore all tabs start unloaded