People are ditching Windows with good reasons. But, hey, de gustibus non disputandum est. my two cents: Your life is nice with microsoft products, but can be so much better without it.

probably everyone realized that google is peeking in your private business anyway so it’s ok to continue use cheap stuff + no play services installed.

Blood Lake CPUs

I went through plex and emby but i finally settled for jellyfin. It has just what i need, a pleasant and minimal interface and it has a light footprint on my rpi. plus is free so no plex premium bullshit stuff.

and they will be aaaall proprietary. one battery per phone model. and companies still will release updates that will cripple the phone every 2 years. nothing will change