No. As a matter of fact there are several studies proving a decrease in logical abilities and critical thinking. From my own experience these people are also often painfully incorrect with absolute confidence what they’re saying is actually correct.

Your use of “everyone” is a nice example of xkcd 2501

This is part of Google’s Material 3 Expressive (M3E for short). A lot of apps have taken the reasonable approach of using the the Android design (M3E) to fit into the system (Also Android happens to make your life easier if you use M3E). This design language sucks in some parts. I personally don’t have an issue with the wavy progress bars, but i agree they should’ve added the option to turn it off.

If you don’t mind all animations being disabled you can get rid of the wiggling by turning on reduced motion.

Edit: It’s called Remove Animations and is located in the Accesibility settings under the Motion mmenu. It also seems to only disable the movement in the media notification for my music player (Auxio), likely a bug, will report to upstream.

Not my liked songs (no such thing in my music app), instead pressed shuffle on my playlist that i mostly listen to (basically my liked songs). Would’ve pressed shuffle on my entire library, but my app can’t handle that so this’ll have to do.

AZALI - ALTERED OBSIDIAN

Rachie - Idol - English Cover

Heaven Pierce Her - No Devil Lived On

Kanaria - ENVY BABY x KING

drwncvnt - no connection

Not really, a lot of android phones ship with either a custom keyboard or the (horrible) AOSP one. Pixels have been the only devices i’ve used that use Gboard per default.

“Make the magic smoke escape”

This sounds very similar to ObsidianOS.

The other way around, but yes.

The main difference is that Libreboot is deblobbed per default.

I found that Limine (bootloader) has the fastest decryption when paired with LUKS at least for my laptop.

Limine does not have decryption, that’s just the linux kernel.