AFAIK regulatory changes were needed and implemented recently. Commercial offers for Vehicle to Grid started this month.

My German ID can do that already AFAIK.

In my experience that sentence never made much sense anyway. Of course over the ~25 years of Linux I had to setup/learn a lot of stuff, but usually it ended up being time well invested.

I also have an X13 Gen2 AMD. My idle power consumption is 2.5W to 4W depending on brightness. This ends up in 12h-15h (machine/battery ist 2y old I think).

I think you can improve your power settings.

I heart that at least in the US losing access to Facetime would be a serious loss in social status. So then this would be a real hurdle WRT user choice.

WRT competetive: No reason to state that in absolutes. I play Rocket League, CS2 and Overwatch2 just fine in Linux.

How deep did you look into it? Don't be misled by maybe your manufacturer not supporting Linux directly. As an example https://github.com/berarma/oversteer helped me to set up my wheel better than any rubbish windows OEM software could have.

Lachen, Nacht and Tochter (don't know a cognate for 'cough') still have this sound in Standard German.

'cough' could share a root with 'keuchen' (IANAL)

That has a different sound though. But yes, it might be a cognate.

I think the worst european country in terms of online freedom right now is the UK, which kind of defeats your point entirely.

Thanks for the reminder. I just disabled AICore and freed 2GB in my Pixel 9 Pro.