It would hope you back by not having newer extended instruction sets available, thus depriving you of probably more efficient shortcuts than you could implement in software alone.
I mean writing as if for older hardware's power level but actually intended/compiled for non-old hardware
I’d really like to be able to run something like “flatpak-mobile install librewolf” and just get something that at least had a file with it to tell phosh how to display menus in the best way, if not a slightly altered librewolf.
PeerTube. It's a video sharing platform with ActivityPub federation and with peer to peer video sharing like a torrent (it is one I think) which lightens the load on instances. An alternative to YouTube is NEEDED right now. A good way to make it grow is to simply start a channel and post videos. It's currently very underpopulated. Some YouTube channels such as The Linux Experiment mirror their channels to PeerTube, so if you have a YT channel, mirror it to PeerTube.
Also to me it seems like Matrix could be the messenger of the future, replacing WhatsApp, SMS/calls, and social media DMs.
The general mobile Linux space is also interesting right now. Year of the Linux phone when? It's not currently fully ready but it's advancing. Also the FSF announced the LibrePhone initiative so there'll probably be more advancement.
My M2 MBP is basically a desktop workstation, so Asahi not supporting DisplayPort over USB-C means that I won't be able to connect a monitor, which I do 98% of the time. I'm switching when the driver releases.
MacOS was telling me "Open this openSUSE ISO in: Balena Etcher, VLC"
what