there are alternative enclosures that people have made. for example: https://www.printables.com/model/1484908-ploopy-mouse-skinny-mod-wo-thumb-rest

neovim at home, Zed with vim bindings at work because I'm stuck with a locked-down Windows machine.

I check every 6 months or so to see if there is something coming out that would be a worthwhile upgrade for either, and I've been surprised that even the 9800X3D isn't that much better than the 5800X3D, and would be bottle-necked by the GPU in the vast majority of games, and that there simply hasn't been a single (non-Nvidia) GPU announced that is clear step up from the 7900XTX.

I dunno about <1% exactly, but I'm for sure a minority, and that is definitely why it's hard to find stuff. I regularly have conversations in real life where people ask me why I don't just have a cheap used bike (given my hobbies and political beliefs, it makes sense on some level to ask) and I think I'm just salty after having to explain to people repeatedly that, no, I'm not a fancy-bike guy, I spent the least that I could.

Also, while cheap bikes are a great resource for working class people who fit them, like MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world and their need for an expensive bike to fit their disability, I think it's important to remind people about accessibility and that there are some of us that cannot access these resources. This is not to say that I think OP was being specifically discriminatory, only that if we don't speak up often about how society does not all bodies into account, people will tend to not think about it in general.

5800X3D and 7900XTX and have seen no compelling reason to upgrade.

I spent over a year looking for a cheap used bike that would fit my 6'4" frame, and finally spent $700 on the cheapest new road bike I could possibly get. I wanted a $50 bike.

I haven't checked on KDE Bigscreen or Waydroid TV in a few months. Have you tested them? I tried both after the big Bigscreen update last year and it wasn't ready yet. As soon as it's ready, I'm taking the motherboard out of my framework laptop and replacing my Shield with it.

I think there are 3 reasonable options (that I'm pursuing currently):

Linux on a phone designed for Android

I've tried a few different models of phone. I'm currently running mobile nixos on a OnePlus 6, but waiting on Plasma Mobile to be fully functional. When I last played with it a couple months ago, the virtual keyboard was broken. Nothing else I've tried has had all features on the phone work.

A small Linux laptop with a mobile network card

I am trying to set up an MNT Pocket Reform as a phone replacement. The hardware is almost there. The software and firmware have a bit of a ways to go, but it has promise for a subset of people.

A Linux-first phone-like device

There are some phones that are set up with PostmarketOS or other mobile Linux distributions from the manufacturer, but they right now tend to be really pricey, under-performing, and don't really have upstream support. The Mecha Comet seems to be another interesting option. I've pre-ordered one and I'm excited to see what it's capable of.

The thing that kept me using Google Keep for a long time, and that there still is no good replacement for, was live collaborative notes editor with a mobile UI and a repository of owned/shared notes.

EDIT: I would love whoever downvoted to post a tool that can do that. I really want to be wrong here.

That's a separate kind of tool.

people put too much "lab" and not enough "home" in homelab. we need more dust, more cables, more jank. love this.

You need to gain a lot of empathy and understanding for human beings that are being crushed under the heel of our systems.