Me, too. But now I kinda regret not going along with it. I don't know, it's a weird mixture of angst with the system and a bit of guilt towards my parents
Yay! They've done some excellent work. It's an amazing piece of software. And has a rich history, too. Maybe this release is finally the kick I need to learn it better
Please don't enable this blindly. A lot of modern websites depend on a bunch of features which will simply not work with that flag enabled. Only do it, if you're willing to compromise and debug things a bit
Yeah, it seems like these immutable distros with individually contained apps (maybe with some additional restrictions and hardening) are similar to what OP wants. There's a lot of distros like this
Nix doesn't really guarantee reproduciblity, though. It's a neat idea for deterministic configurations. But bit by bit reproducible binary builds are an entire difference beast. GNU Guix has way more promise in that regard
Theoretically, yes. But I'm not sure if it's gonna be smooth sailing. You would probably need a custom kernel which supports the kindle hardware. I don't know if there is any project which already packages/distributes the kindle kernel
Me, too. But now I kinda regret not going along with it. I don't know, it's a weird mixture of angst with the system and a bit of guilt towards my parents