What I usually do is tell the Play Store to not update it. Also, I don't think it's that involved. Take this with a grain of salt because I'm pretty experienced with phone modification, but I think it's just downloading the file, opening it, selecting YouTube, choosing what modifications you want, and installing it.
LinuxSBC
Input Leap? Now that Barrier is no longer being developed, Input Leap is the main fork, and GNOME 45 just added support for it on Wayland.
Alias?
A deGoogled ROM, or if you still need Google services, GrapheneOS.
Speech to text.
Have you tried OpenRGB?
You get a full desktop environment, which is preconfigured, has better connected parts, and includes GUIs for things like settings.
Bismuth and Khronkite no longer work in 5.27, so is what you should use on newer versions of KDE.
Including non-binary people was not the problem. Relevant quote:
"AnitaB.org, the nonprofit that runs the conference, said there was “an increase in participation of self-identifying males” at this year’s event. The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US."
They identified as male, not non-binary, and the event allowed men to come.
The battery life is impressive, but I don't think they edited the article much. For example, this paragraph was left in:
"Another standout feature of this design is the size and quality of the display. At 16-inches across, this panel is dramatically larger than many of the branded products that are priced similarly, and with a natural resolution of xxx, it allows for more applications to share screen space."
That is actually Unity. It's a mildly modified version used in Ubuntu Unity. Also, Xfce was also misspelled as XCFe.
sethboy66's response is very good, but I'll summarize it here in case it helps. In science, the word "theory" basically means "explanation." Some explanations are proven wrong, but others have a lot of evidence going for them. Quantum mechanics is a theory that's basically proven, and it's commonly used all the time, such as in the computer you used to write that comment. String theory is not really proven, but it's basically an extension to the existing body of quantum mechanics.