For comparison, I've used PostmarketOS on Pinephone, and it required a lot of fiddly to get a poor experience.

But maybe the simpler usecase of "just reading" has good solutions?

I have this requirement too, since I like to use F-Droid.

My point isn't that there are no such users. My point is that product managers in banks don't care about F-Droid users, since there's so few of us that it's not worth them worrying about.

Many websites are giving up Firefox support, and Firefox adoption is much higher than F-Droid.

If a bank app happens to be okay with F-Droid, it's not because they look out for the needs of F-Droid, it's simply by happenstance.

But I'm not sure about his other stuff.

"Avoid features that add disproportionate cost"

I expect part of the problem here is that it's often not clear what the value of features until it's available to customers.

Even the costs of bloat are unclear. Take his bank website example. Do we really think many bank customers are choosing banks based on their website's latency? Banks compete on things users actually care about, like interest rates or fees.

Lots of software inevitably won't meet our ideal standards, because given the cost of developers it's not worth doing things The Right Way.

Window managers can plausibly already do a lot of what other software can do, yet in practice, popular workflows tend to assume very little from the window manager.

I try to avoid terminal multiplexers in favour of Sway/Emacs/dtach/SSH multiplexing, but I still often reach for tmux.

It's fine to choose your workflow by whatever criteria you decide, but on a post about workflows on a discussion forum, it's reasonable for mvdtnz to continue that discussion and not be laughed at for doing so.

It's nice to have to a set of programs I moderately care about, so when I'm learning another language I can port them to it.

They're unimportant enough that I can comfortably experiment, but important enough that I want to complete the rewrite.

My "blog engine" is a nushell script that uses pandoc and built-in XML support to convert markdown into a site+feed.

NixOS works well for x86-64 and aarch64, but not so much armv7l, as so many consumer routers are.

The PC Engines happens to be x86-64 with decent storage expansion, but for sure if you want to target armv7l, NixOS is not a good choice.

I see the fresh re-install suggestions probably work but that's tedious and risky.

> Nobody actually cares about security for packages that are not in the default install.

Probably an exaggeration, but it's clear there are some packages that are insecure out-the-box.

CoreRAD is about the same thing, but for NDP instead of DHCP.

I could have used systemd-networkd for serving DHCP and NDP, but prefer to use separate modular privilege-separated deamons, especially if I get memory safety too.

https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/eap615-wall is the device I use as an AP, which runs OpenWRT.

systemd-networkd + kea + corerad is the software I use.

That's EOL now, so nowadays I'd look to ARM e.g. https://radxa.com/products/network-computer/e52c

I used it for a while, but after I've had it for a few months, and want to improve/diagnose something, I can't easily tell which config I've changed from defaults, and so can't easily diagnose how I might have screwed it up, or predict how changes will impact the rest of the system.

I moved my router to NixOS, where I can now see the ~250 config that covers the custom setup needed for my ISP/LAN.

If asked, I'd still recommend OpenWRT for most techies, since it's easier to get started.

I know how it's taught. Internally it has aspects of long addition, and caching, but I don't do perform that algorithmically.

How then does that map to the physical structure of the brain? Do we know that?

+1, I fall into this category. It's tough.

But is it a problem for the gaming industry? How many sales can they expect from the time poor?

I manage to still play, by choosing conceptually simple games (puzzle, platformer, sports, GTA, some FPS), and playing on the Steam Deck. Portability + instant resume works well for this.