That’s not what happened. There are still Russian contributors. Just the onces that have in some way (maybe indirectly) ties with the Russian government have been removed.

Why not use Android in the first place then? I mean, it works fine on pretty much any device.

If you use swap (excluding hibernation) it means you need more ram.

The kernel used by Android is Linux, just like the kernel used by PiOS.

Great! Used Arch for a while, with KDE. I’m now using Debian with Gnome permanently.

I’m not familiar with Blend OS, but if your goal is being able to run Android apps you can also install Waydroid yourself in multiple distro’s. I’m running Debian with Gnome on my Surface Go 2 using the Surface kernel and Waydroid with Gapps. It runs really well.

So what’s the known issue?

On the other hand, if you buy something, check what you’re buying. Don’t complain if you don’t even know what you’re buying.

Laser printers don’t burn the paper. They require toners. So it wasn’t a joke unless they also didn’t know how a laser printer works.