That's stupid. Nothing stops you from just installing regular Ubuntu if you love snaps so much.
This must be some weird American thing. I've gotten pixels on contract before in my country and I can OEM unlock and flash them no issue. If you don't pay the cell carrier will just blacklist the IMEI. They don't lock down the device itself.
Aegis is for Android, Ravio is an iOS app.
Have you tried adding it to Steam as a non-steam game and then forcing compatibility for it to proton experimental in Steam?
I use a Fossil Hybrid watch with gadget bridge. Works really well, though one caveat is that while you can read and dismiss messages on the watch, you can't reply from it. This isn't a problem for my use case, but YMMV. The couple weeks of battery life is a great plus, though. (E-ink screen)
Wait why the hell is lemmy.world federated with Meta anyways? That seems... stupid?
Shit like this is why I use a DeGoogled phone. Get a Pixel and install GrapheneOS or CalyxOS and use open source apps wherever you can, and sandbox any Google Play apps you have to use (banking, etc).
Especially with Red Hat's current shenanigans that just recently happened. I can't see how anyone thought this was a good idea OR good timing for it.
Try Organic Maps on F-Droid. It seems to have no anti-features and is pretty solid in general.
YouTube wants to double dip by collecting and selling your data, and forcing you to either get served ads or pay them $15/month. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
Even so, breaking Jerboa app access to every lemmy instance that isn't lemmy.ml is a bit of a big oops. Especially during a period of tons of new users who may not understand what the problem is. Hopefully steps can be taken in the future so that it doesn't happen again.
NexusMods is working on their new post-vortex mod client, which does have Linux support. It can be found here on github.