Lonewolfmcquade

That makes sense. Mine is a Kenwood aftermarket unit so maybe its a Kenwood thing

I'd like to hear more about this. When I went to setup Auto on my vehicle, it demanded that I copy all contact information to the head unit, or it would not proceed with pairing and setup. That's when I just shrugged and disconnected my phone. Bluetooth works just fine for me

Yup. My pixel arrived 2 weeks ago. Just loaded Graphene last week. Haven't even put the sim card in it yet. FFS

I had ghost touches on my old Motorola. I never could figure out any pattern or cause for the problem. But a restart seemed to resolve it

I totally agree with your take here. I'd also like to add that I went the Synology route and since it is restricted to my local network, it did not require the creation of an account. Seems like it's possible to be an anonymous Synology user for now.

I've had similar experiences moving to Linux on various machines. I don't yet understand the pattern. Why do some distros work better on some machines than others?

I have an original MS Surface Pro. Ubuntu works best on it, imo.

I have a 10 year old Asus laptop that has all kinds of seemingly random issues - currently on Mint but about to migrate to OpenSuse.

I have a 4 year old Dell laptop and it likes Garuda the best.

Go figure.

I love Ventoy for this reason. I can try 8 different distros till I find one that works best on a particular machine.

I think it's also pushing subscription based cloud services. To me, the SD card slot is a convenient backup target when away from home. It fits my 3-2-1 backup strategy. Without it, more people will consider backing up to paid cloud services, like how Apple does it.

For the record, I hate this trend. Hands off my sd slot and my 3.5mm jack. But I also want GrapheneOS or something similar. Can't have it all...

Bump for an update. What did you ultimately do?

I'm looking for a similar solution

This process sounds very flexible. Got a link about how to set this up?

I'd also like to learn how to do this but it seems like a steep learning curve for a non-expert user. If you have any resources to share to learn this kung fu, please post

I've tried a few times to use Timeshift to restore to a new disk. Once it worked without any issue. This last time it did not and I suspect grub just needs to be rebuilt. I've read that it is always possible but Timeshift certainly doesn't make it easy in every case

I do something similar but my live USB is just bootable Clonezilla. I'd like to hear more about why you use a live Ubuntu ssd.