You can't pretend forever.
You're not happy. Ricing your Gentoo desktop with i3-gaps and urxvt won't fulfill you. Spending two hours configuring mpv to watch the anime you acquired from the private tracker you managed to make it into won't bring you happiness. Using Firefox with uMatrix, Privacy Badger, NoScript and Startpage doesn't have a significant positive impact on your life.
Is the Xiaomi Note a really good deal? Am I a pleb if I don't install Lineage OS? Maybe. Maybe you're just autistic.
You're not autistic. You just need to get out.
This isn't healthy. You're not happy. You may be enjoying yourself, but you're becoming bitter, cynical, and hard to talk to.
Your mother isn't a pleb for using an iPhone. Your professor isn't a faggot for using Windows 10. You're blowing these issues way out of proportion, and they're taking over your personality.
Soon, if not already, you'll only be able to relate to people on the Internet that you'll never actually know. You're putting a lot of effort into your shitposts, and for what?
Go outside. Right now. Take a breath of fresh air. Smoke a cigarette. Text a friend. Go to the movies. Get some money. Save it. Go on a vacation.
Do something tangible. These issues that you worry about--Windows 10, Pajeet, ISPs, torrents--shitposting on Jow Forums does NOTHING except stroke the ego that has been created for you by the hivemind that is Jow Forums. You don't have an impact on these issues, and resorting to using outdated hardware and software and needlessly complicating your UX only hinders your development as a happy, fulfilled, and functioning member of society.
That being said, I run Lineage OS. I have a Libreboot X60. I use a T420 with Fedora. But I also use Google location services, Chromium, Netflix, because I prefer a convenient and familiar environment, without complicating my user experience and needlessly wasting my time.
You're wasting your youth here. Go do something. I love you guys.