Yeah, because ultimately UDP is just IP with ports and a checksum added on top, you can do anything with it you can do with plain IP, including reliable transport.

Tbh I wouldn't trust a script that repartitions my storage even if it wasn't written by AI.

Honestly to play devil's advocate, California's law almost is the lesser of 2 evils, if software can ask the OS for age verification then maybe companies will stop rolling out actually invasive verification, and if the OS verification is handled by the sysadmin then it satisfies both sides, people that want to have age verification, and people that think it should be left in the hands of parents as a parenting role. Me personally? I'd rather we have no verification at all but that isn't the path the world is moving down.

Computer engineering is typically hardware and low level software design which doesn't really fit the analogy you're going for.

Powerful yes, powerful enough to replace a PC, I suppose only if you don't do that much heavy compute

Is the new official VPN project any different from Orbot? I don't know much about it. I would assume not as anything more elaborate would require changes to the tor protocol. Either way you aren't wrong. You can pretty much get by on the modern internet with TCP alone, it does mean no HTTP/3 but that's not a big deal and outside of games very few other things in the wild use UDP. Never mind the other even less used L4 protos like SCTP.

Probably also depends on what country you're coming in from. I have virtually no social media presence myself but when I came back to the US I didn't even have to speak to CBP, they had an automated facial scanning system and just required you to be holding your passport. This is as a citizen, I'm sure the process for foreigners is less lax.

Is this still a problem if you don't have the Gemini app but Gemini has replaced Google assistant on the phone? Because my phone has Gemini as the assistant but the app is not there, I even unhid system apps in settings and did a search

That's true but knowing gnome they'll abandon evince development. So while you can still use evince it likely won't be maintained or bug fixed.

Router yes, actually router is running coreboot and tiano core with OpenWRT. Does still have proprietary microcode though, and WiFi firmware. All my WAPs also run OpenWRT. I don't have a modem, I have fiber. The ONT is probably running something proprietary but as far as I'm concerned that's ISP equipment, not mine. Phone...not quite. I tried...it is running an AOSP rom...but going to a full Linux phone never quite worked out. That being said I was originally referring to my laptop and desktop which make use of no proprietary software or drivers. I do go FOSS to the extreme as much as possible. I just haven't figured out the phone. I did try going f-droid only for a while but it made basic tasks on my phone substantially more difficult.

Always has? It's supported java and I think python for forever

Ngl when Nintendo got yuzu to fold I was like

Well I'm never giving that company money ever again

I'm usually mostly against piracy, not for legal reasons but because I think the creators should be rewarded for their hard work making content people enjoy...but Nintendo can go fly a kite...and crash it while they're at it.