In my experience, WhatsApp does not send an image unchanged. So it doesn’t matter if the recipient can handle it, as long as WhatsApp’s conversion can

OneDrive allows to save files directly to the cloud?

Great battery life and linux unfortunately are a hard task and linux support is often spotty for consumer devices.

Sticking to used business hardware is usually a good start, but you should check for compability issues nonetheless.

Used t490 / t480. Can you elaborate on the “heavy limited by space”?

If someone was willing to invest into building and maintaining infrastructure there would be no need for this concept, but that’s a political issue. The idea of this concept is do make the best of what you have.

How would traffic pass each other? You would be stuck with the same issue as normal trains.

Better by what standard? They aren’t the most used apps just for not being foss.

Of course those exist, but that does not make them standard compliant. Same goes for power supplies that don’t do handshakes. That’s not an issue if you exactly know what you need them for, but they’re not meant for the general public because you can use them wrong.

Theoretically you could build a male to male contraption from multiple adapters and a cable. Also you could be providing too much current to a device, however this is specific to the combination of adapter, cable and power supply you use.

I can’t quite figure out what would be the use cases where bcache would excel, except for hdds without cache or systems with very limited ram. Can you help me out with that?

Hmm the prices on eBay really don’t seem that good to me in comparison to newer generations. I guess the power consumption will eat up any savings pretty quickly. Though this might differ for whole sets.

What do you need a dedicated GPU in school for?

That’s a bad comparison. Without a lock you can just open the door from the outside.

You’re having way too many thoughts about this. I’ll give you a simple choice: It’s either Xubuntu or Linux Mint.

Simply choose by which one looks better to you. Done.

In a year you can look back at your post and decide again if there is anything you want to change or you’re in dire need of a Linux hobby and Gentoo is all you’ve ever been looking for.

That’s a horrible recommendation!

Imho that’s a horrible idea. A large part of content on the instance I’m on has become bots just reposting news articles without any own contribution, no discussion, nothing.

Of course it’s not about centralisation per se, but the problems that a centralised platform does not have to deal with.