As far as I can tell, and I’m happy to be corrected, most of the Apple trackpad “magic” comes from the software drivers, not from unique hardware. So making a frankenwork laptop wouldn’t really help unless you spent effort fighting with closed source blobs in an environment they don’t want to be in.
It's plausible that broad concern about recycled plastics would be valid.
This study[1] found that the recycled plastics analyzed were fairly toxic. I recall another that found the same for recycled synthetic clothing, but I was unable to find a reference.
I'd also really love to hear an answer to this question. The difference isn't really clear from the comparison on this page: https://wasmer.io/products/edge
I wrote a server that bridges Subsonic clients to my Spotify library. I like that it lets me to stream anything on Spotify but I can still fill in favorites that aren't available.
This appears to share lineage with Umbrel. I haven't looked deeply enough to make any particular claims, but I feel fairly confident that one of these projects is violating someone's copyright.