seconding this; unless you’re paying for it: they use your data to make money and have (and do) make use of your data as leverage to get you to pay more.

setting up your own home server that’s accessible to the internet is much cheaper, but it does come with risks that you must make yourself aware of to mitigate.

I suspect that this is the story for most Linux users; windows failing at a critical need

windows doesn’t show linux partitions correctly.

did you have it setup to ask you which operating system you wanted to boot and do you still see it?

in 2002 when my windows me computer start looping on the blue screen of death, with all of my college papers/essays/tests/assignments trapped in it.

the recovery media refused to work because i had upgraded the computer several times and i couldn’t afford the $180 windows xp cd. so i bought a linux magazine for $5 that included a copy of mandrake linux installation media and used paper printouts from my college’s computer labs to help me rescue my work from the computer.

xmodmap was meant to work with x11 so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it doesn’t work very well w wayland.

instead, you’ll want to use a combination of libinput and evdev along w gnome/kde tools or input-remapper/wlr-inputremapper if you’re not using either.

i’ve only owned one macbook in my life and it too came from the e-waste bin and it worked well for about 5 years.

that’s also where i got a lot of hardware that i still use to this day.