The behavior is actively endorsed by the platform.

I’m glad you figured it out! Thank you for sharing your solution.

Sounds good! Basically, the problem I had boiled down to a super old driver no kernel dev wants to touch with a ten foot pole and they’re just kinda hoping it’ll die a death to irrelevancy, but there are a few systems out there that do still use it.

The rest of the design moved on to more advanced architecture.

I had this problem specifically dealing with the way that IOMMU maps devices conflicting with a really old USB root hub. I had to set something like intel_iommu=off for my case.

Would you be willing to share the output of your dmesg ?

I just hope more open phones like the rumored Graphene phone with actually good high-end hardware are out by then so I can leave their ecosystem comfortably. As you wrote, Google has a history of abusive behavior and doing what they want anyway.

Interesting! I learned a new word. And yes, look to Google Chrome’s walking back of blocking ad-blockers to its eventually implementation anyway once people stopped screaming about it.

That’s the problem; handset makers don’t believe you own the phone. They think it’s their phone that you’re paying to use temporarily.

I have family members who can’t change their phone wallpaper through the GUI. Your standards are far too high!

Google has far too much power. We should not be subject to the whims of a company that does not and cannot have our best interests at heart. For this reason, my next phone will be a Fairphone or, I hope, the new Graphene phone when it comes out late next year.

Back in my day, we had this feature on Windows Vista called ReadyBoost that took advantage of the low-latency of flash media to supplement our slow HDDs. I’m not sure if there was a direct replacement for this in the Linux world. There are filesystems that take advantage of faster tiers of storage, but different latency tier exploitation isn’t something that I know to be readily available.

Today, 2GB of USB flash is next to useless, but I would consider a homebrew rescue system to restore your backups and fix problems without needing to prepare an external flash drive.

The day they come out with that phone they’re supposedly working on I intend to buy it.

Good news; a true necessity if eSIM is to be consumer friendly.

A smartphone is the ultimate, single-user personal computer. Choosing a device is too intimate for me to use any sort of tabular comparison tool. The device needs to be right for me qualitatively also.

I strongly recommend picking a handful of devices and getting a variety of opinions from reviewers. Then, weigh those opinions against what features are most important to you.

If this is your main computer which most likely it is for most people, it’s worthwhile to spend some time on selection.

People get so hostile over such things. I have an iPhone for business. I have a Pixel for my personal use. They’re alright. It depends on what you need. Still a smartphone enthusiast.

Is this basically Ubuntu?

They do intentionally hold back packages based on a random value to do gradual rollouts. See below:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1431940/what-are-phased-updates-and-why-does-ubuntu-use-them

Could this be your issue?