It’s loading a lot of content locally, and very very slowly before you can even use it.

Agreed but battery life is clutch with mobile devices. Dead phone batteries don’t facilitate travel. Or waiting for your car to get fixed and having this in the glove box … I mean your argument is basically against all retro handheld devices.

I can’t wait to run Linux on my Pixel! No way are nerds going to stand for this.

I cannot fathom why they would go this route after Archive.org was targetted and so thoroughly lost. They could have hosted it on a different site.