For anonymity alone, no. You ought to at least aspire to live the nomad lifestyle first and put up with its challenges, then enjoy whatever anonymity comes from it as a bonus.

If you don't mind apartment living, you could consider the arrangement I had at one point. Private landlord who didn't run background checks, accepted payment in any reasonable form, many tenants, communal mailbox without apartment numbers or names required. Internet, utilities, etc. all rolled into rent and not individually metered. Might be harder to find but they exist.

To clear my bucket list of food I want to try. Many items require travelling abroad, so I don't think it'll be completed anytime soon.

Gross. Does it still track bluetooth if the phone is already paired with a headset and not actively searching for new connections? Guess I'll be back to wired headphones if that's the case.

As others have said, no because Google's components have very good backward compatibility and will come for your device on its stock OS.

I had other vendors in mind when I first read your question. In a sense, older ones could spy less as a side effect of vendor telemetry servers going dark over the years. Samsung also wasn't as rampant with their spying back then. But either way, such phones would have been long without any security updates.

The US response to Microsoft's monopoly was meager, this time, they will cheer Google on.

Bottled water in general. If it's tap water, never with ice, especially at the beginning since whatever pathogens around will be enriched in the ice maker if the establishment isn't cleaning it regularly. If I'm around long enough, maybe a week, I'll probably find out whatever precautions the locals take with the tap water and follow suit.

It's generally fine in major US cities, but do check. It could be anywhere from Flint Michigan water to unregulated well water to being somewhat famous for its purity in the case of NYC. I've lived a few years in a town where the water doesn't pose a health hazard, but the bad taste made everyone buy filters.

As someone who has used X11 and Wayland, it doesn't matter for the typical user. If you, like me, have a penchant for some smaller desktop environments like XFCE or window managers, you will be stuck with X11, but many are already working on porting to Wayland.

Couple edge cases for gaming, namely screen tearing on some X11 configurations and certain Nvidia hardware running into issues on Wayland. For multi-monitor or high DPI users, Wayland handles per-monitor DPI and fractional scaling far better than X11. Maybe a couple more edge use cases for remoting into the desktop, but Wayland support is also improving quickly on that end. In any case, Wayland is by design more secure than X11.

Yep, ever since I saw them in popups on hosting sites or gatekeeping downloads behind some shady .exe, I've associated them with malware and adware.

it should use the encryption passphrase to auto unlock the keyring after the autologin

It doesn't, hence the need to remove the password. Password only comes back every once in a while, rather than every login. Maybe a bad combination of desktop environment/session manager? LightDM with XFCE in my case.

Meanwhile, I'm fighting to get rid of the password on the keyring each time it comes back by itself. For context, my root partition is encrypted, so it's not a huge deal if the keyring stored on it doesn't have its own password, I think. I set up autologin to avoid a duplicate password, but since the session manager no longer unlocks the keyring, the keyring must have no password else I get a password prompt all over again. There's probably a more elegant way, but I've yet to find it.