Great. I’m glad you saw them. Yeah, I’ve been watching this device for years hoping for better support. The very technical manual WiFi fixes do seem to work, but I think a usb WiFi adapter might be more pleasant.

Yes, Macbook Pro 2017 has issues with Linux. See here for what does and doesn’t work: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

Some workaround fixes here: https://gist.github.com/roadrunner2/1289542a748d9a104e7baec6a92f9cd7

Just make sure to install the 3rd party nonfree media codecs at installation for video to work out if the box. Also recently released Nvidia GPUs might have some bugs with Wayland ime

It was actually a mistake. They were removed years ago specifically for the fdroid builds, but were reintroduced at some point on accident. Annoying mistake for sure

I’ve used it exclusively for 5 years for the privacy benefits. Destination and address search is BAD. Navigation is adequate.

Pylance, I believe, doesn’t work due to a Microsoft proprietary language server. But installing Pyright does most of the job. Something like that.

RIP Infinity