A part of that is due to the fact that you now only have one company to worry about collecting data, rather than both the manufacturer(think Samsung) and then Google too.
They also play the best with options like Grapheneos or Calyxos
If you don't have immediate obligations such as kids, older, or sick family members/friends.
The industry is full of crap but I went from food service to driving a semi. 4 week school paid for by the company(after signing a 1yr contract) do that one year knowing it's going to suck and then find something local you like or stay on the road and do online school/self study. Most all of the big US based companies have partnered with online colleges to heavily discount the cost.
I did it as an emergency to save for a year and get out but ended up liking it and now work in safety with no school, just experience.
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
Time for another SSD
AP, BBC and NPR
Have a redragon myself, not too shabby. I'd also look at nuphy
Fedora workstation for now. Might give silverblue a go as I've found myself using more flatpaks recently, or vanilla OS when the rebase to Debian.
Wallpaper: wallpapersden iceberg minimalist
Launcher: Nova
Icons: Arcticons dark/light
Widget: Today Weather
Behind NewPipe it would be Gadgetbridge and Feeder
You can set up a keyboard shortcut, which runs off the terminal commands, then you're always using it but not using it, also
I'm not a commodity, I'm not a product, don't trade my shit. Simple as that.