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I replaced the battery on mine in under a year despite it reporting 92% or something like that… Using with Hubitat Elevation with the default update rates or slower. Very disappointed in the battery life otherwise, a great sensor

I don’t know about the distro but I know his keyboard only has 2 keys: 1 and 0

Recently install Fedora 42 KDE on one of those weird laptops with a pen - everything just works, no tinkering.
Looking at your specs - I have almost the same config, except in place of SATA SSD I installed a NVMe SSD, if course the laptop needs to support that. KDE Plasma is superior in the touch support, although the screen keyboard is a little buggy at times. But the situation in the GNOME ecosystem is a bit worse for touch/pen devices. Good luck

Yep and can be easily firewalled to mitigate trust

It can track a bookmark last visited time and count a bookmark number times xlicjed. It is a bookmark sync centric service

Also dust