That is still not running in the wifi chip itself.

Doesn’t need to be a government but just common thiefs getting your computer and selling it to someone who knows what to look for.

That’s not firmware in wifi adapter.

Forgejo is what you should use nowadays: https://lwn.net/Articles/963095/

That’s likely a kernel issue. Happened to me also like a year ago. After updating to the latest kernel I have not had any problems.

Could also be that the card is not staying in the pci-e slot or is sagging as I have seen this happen often with heavier cards. It causes black screen, instability and performance issues in general.

As far as I know Mint and if things have not changed lately then Pop_OS as well has old kernel. Use distro with up to date kernel. For gaming a rolling release is usually a good option as the performance updates arrive early.

As salty as I am from earlier experiences with Nvidia the modern Nvidia cards do work just fine on Linux.

Google’s scale is billions so this is just the price of doing business and they’ve done it cheap.

Surprising. Best VPN list there is clearly sponsored tho.

Well it’s a hack that requires it to work. Doesn’t matter if that phone is your own so it could be aunts husbands girls dogs phone for what it cares.

Best way to get official support for Android is to wait for it before getting that device. In case marketing there sees it as profitable it will most likely arrive.

This sounds insane.

Bigger the fan worse the treatment.