Sway has become a joy to use over time as I’ve fucked with my config but now I feel like it’s more boring too I barely ever feel the need or want to massively change anything 🥲

No because I don’t have an account

By this point, Phase II will initiate as the metal bits reorganize themselves into a lining along your spine. They will take over control of your corpse for the following months, synthetically reanimating you. Nothing can stop your flesh from discolouring and rotting slowly, however. Eventually, the metal ennards will absolve themselves of your flesh vessel as it no longer suits their purposes, and control is returned to you once more; although your skin may by this point have discoloured into a shade of purple.

Hehe

The thing is that Google accounts aren’t only used for mail though; reliable access to the Play Store through Aurora, as well as access to paid apps, needs a Google account for instance

To still sorta replicate that, I just set up a script at /usr/local/bin/update for it:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

sudo emaint sync -a &&
sudo emerge -utDU @world &&
sudo emerge -c;
flatpak --user update;
doom upgrade &&
doom sync &&
doom purge

Yeah I prefer Neo Store but they both are really solid

Go with Neo Store rather than the F-Droid app; it has a better GUI, supports adding other FOSS app repos like IzzyOnDroid, and does a pretty good job keeping apps up to date actually