Too much text… I asked an AI chatbot to give a short summary:

Framework’s latest update on the Laptop 16 indicates progress in addressing engineering issues. Press units have been shipped, with some minor areas for improvement. No new issues have arisen. The main challenge is with the CPU heatsink, which Cooler Master is overhauling. If all goes well, Batch 1 pre-order emails will be sent in late January, with the goal of shipping the first Batch 1 systems before month-end. Resolved issues include tuning capacitor noise and touchpad row sliding friction. Ongoing efforts involve qualifying liquid metal installation alongside the CPU heatsink.

At least it seems like they update this page regularly.

1. Easier installation.
2. Mint configuration of desktop settings
3. Mint tools (Warpinator, Hypnotix)

Not yet fully since fingerprint is not supported in all variants.

Also with the “stability” topic. This can mean everthing from hibernation issues to power management.

I think Framework knows exactly why they don’t offer preinstalled Linux yet.

But where to get the AppImages from? Who’s maintaining? How to do Security Vulnerality Tracking for them?

The pogo pin solution looks nice!

Don’t panic!

I don’t get your point. Why should somebody do this every day?

As the experience from other users in this thread, it seems not extremely rare to have an overgrown ~/.cache/ folder. So checking it from time to time is a good advice. If we all do this for a time, and create bug tickets for software which is not cleaning up. Then this problem will hopefully go away with future software releases.

Because some users experienced accidential grows like OP had 160 Gbyte. So general advice for linux users can be stated as: Check your ~/.cache every now and then

Critical systems/servers shall better be monitored as you suggest.

So OP’s headline should be saying instead: Reminder to CHECK your ~/.cache folder every now and then

Is it safe to clear ~/.cache/mozilla/ while Firefox is running?