It’s not malware it’s more adware. At least it used to be

Mine was empty but enabled. Weird.

A computer is something you’d want to buy with a credit card, as they often come with additional free warranties for various mishaps

Samsung isn’t root friendly at all. Most of their phones can’t be bootloader unlocked officially.

The only ones that do are google, moto and the chinese ones

In the US they don’t come with immobilizers as standard equipment. They do in Canada (by law), so it’s not a problem here. There’s been a trend of stealing these easily in the US and posting it on tiktok

I don’t notice the ads either. They’re blocked systemwide. Lol

HTTPS means nothing. All sites are HTTPS these days. If your only check for a scam is that then you’re fucked

Of course. Especially since they now include Nvidia drivers which are like 300 MB each and there’s more than one IIRC

Nowadays you can’t even boot Ubuntu from disc. The loader is completely bugged out and you need to specify a few boot args to get it to boot within a semi reasonable amount of time. Last time I did, it took 20 minutes to load lol.