I doubt this. People are willing to reupload videos that they like, so why wouldn't they seed? for example this video has been reuploaded quite a few times because people like it so much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhu-EA1ruNk

The whole point of a video hosting service is to act as an easy directory for finding videos you like. The fact that the same service happens to host the videos in this case is inconsequential.

Reuploading is just a single shot upload of a few gigabytes.

Continual seeding to millions of peers is not.

I agree with most of what you've said, but some cryptocurrencies use proof-of-work systems (like RandomX) that truly are ASIC/FPGA/GPU-proof by design.

Yes but so is any asset. Gold, property, etc.

Because (at least originially) the goal of cryptocurrencies were to combat the double spending problem, providing an alternative to fractional-reserve banking.

You could use a rolling-release distro, but it means you are still updating like every year or so (although in more of a ship-of-theseus fashion).

the ultimate solution is to release the source code and compile it against the newer ABI.

I think the new GNOME is pretty comparable to the Windows and MacOSX interfaces. Is there something I'm overlooking?

pine64 and purism are lot smaller than qualcomm and the like. They don't have that type of leverage.

Speaking from experience with the pinephone, the browser situation is actually pretty good on postmarketOS because they have a custom firefox configuration for mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6qnlw4hgE

I can also confirm that the camera interface is slow. It takes like 30 seconds to dump a single image and render it into a jpeg. The main camera app is called "Megapixels". I'm not sure, but i've heard there are some paralellism changes coming downstream that may improve performance somewhat now that they have updated to gtk4.

I disagree. Fuchsia will eliminate the need for the hardware vendor to supply open-source drivers. In this regard, it is a major step backwards in security and upgradability.