You could try using usb tethering to provide internet for the installation.

Always these bot accounts pretending to be human.

Is there something like obtainium with the ability to build from source?

Do you feel empathy for them?

It recommends obviously wrong choices like Tails

What surprised me with debain, it comes as a very minimal installation, so you will have to set up stuff like sudo yourself.

It’s great for beginners and has many guides online.

I mostly work in qtile in a fullscreen layout or a diagonal split between two windows. My hotkeys are super+d for rofi in dmenu mode and super+q for a shutdown menu also in rofi.

Meaning very likely.

If they use a password manager and randomly generated passwords, then it’s acceptable.

The framework 16 is a gaming laptop. The framework 13 should be enough for your needs.

Like my username implies I am definitely not responsible for breaking into this persons home and stealing 3-4 pizzas last week.

It is also a reasonable explanation for any disappearing pizza.

Is there a difference between the apt and the install script version?

What trustworthy options do you have for acquiring hardware?

Have you tried looking for used thinkpads?

A used framework 13 might be something for you

How many of these just stand in China’s EV graveyards?

It’s definitely a scam, because they gained their value through manipulation as well as artificial and controlled rarity.