Idk about coffee as I don’t drink it, but if a drink is too hot or too cold the temperature tends to mask the flavor.

Wow, we only vacuum once a week, that’s it. Maybe its because my tower is on my desk? Or our air is just really clean for some reason…

The latency isn’t an issue, the timing becomes an issue because you don’t have a clean signal at some point, meaning the signal will arrive “spread out” over time. If it spreads to the next signal, your GPU isn’t recognized anymore.

But as long as.that doesn’t happen, there is no latency or performance decrease.

Depends in how clean your room is. I have a case without dust filters and it’s been running for over a year without any visible dust accumulating.

Also it’s mounted up high, the further you can get from your floor the cleaner it’ll be.

Nope. As long as your signal still gets through without timing issues, everything behaves fine.

You don’t really need any airflow there. The only thing that gets hot there is memory, but that is already cooled through the PCB (good heat conductor because of the copper), which is cooled by the regular heat sink.

free libre open source software.

Basically software by the people for the people controlled and kept in check by the people.

what kind of prof is that?

Lead engineer was a (really good) engineer at some point. Also lead engineer still needs to understand a lot about programming and the project they’re working with

Almost all Linuxes are really private. Because of your ethics and morals, I would probably switch to Debian or Arch, and use Flatpak where possible to prevent apps from spying on one another and reading files from other apps or your system.

Kicksecure, Whonix, Tails, Qubes, … exist but they’re not needed and to much of a hassle for day to day use for most people.

Yes, which is what I use. I don’t really like the company and people behind it, and they’ve did some shady stuff but the other chromium browsers aren’t really any better.

Firefox Sync exists though, and it does the same.

They already have the Framework Chromebook, which should ship with Coreboot.

Somehow they might got a special version of the app. Really really unlikely though, it’s probably just A/B testing or false logs.

Kinda like this: https://youtu.be/OLRldZjty_s

Carrier Pigeons

I don’t hate it, I really want to like it. It’s just that I have a rather niche issue that really bugs me and forces me to chromium (or derivatives).

FIDO2 / YubiKey support on Chromium is far superior compared to FF.

It doesn’t require you to use Facebook though. They might use FB analytics or tracking, but probably dont, or only for very few users.

Exodus Privacy detects trackers in apps, here is their report for Ally: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ally.MobileBanking/latest/

Many other apps contain way more and worse trackers, just some Amazon and Google Firebase is on the light side.

According to Exodus Privacy (they analize mobile apps for trackers), Ally only contains Amazon and Google trackers (Google Firebase Analytics is used by almost all apps): https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ally.MobileBanking/latest/

Others also say their Ally app doesn’t connect to Facebook. Maybe you have a Unicorn or a modified app (rather unlikely though)?