Okay grandma, let’s get you to bed

Uhhm… then don’t watch them? Surely these are not the only kind of videos that youtube recommends that you don’t want to see.

Lastly, you seem angry, is everything OK?

Anno 1503

Felt nostalgic, and I like to shoot myself in the foot during finals by escaping for a few hours.

I’m using a Thinkpad X1 Yoga with touchscreen and stylus support. Works flawlessly with Fedora. Bought the 8 GB version with an 8th gen i7 from a local shop in Vienna for 200€, but there’s also a 16 GB one.

I would say that Surface is too old for proper use especially for that price. Have a look around more, and better deals just gonna fall into your lap.

You will basically need to start fresh with a custom rom as google services are deeply ingrained into the standard operating system. Its almost impossible/not worth it even to to to get rid of those once they are installed. You could check first, which custom roms are available for your phone. Graphene, divestos and calyxos are probably the most private roms, but only available on a few models. Lineageos is widely available but will need extra steps to degoogle.

If a custom rom seems like too much hasle your can improve your privacy most easily by choosing a tracker and dns blocking doh/dns sever on android. It only takes minutes.

Android settings -> search for private dns -> chose private dns provider hostname -> doh.mullvad.net

More examples for providers here: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/#dns