Yeah, seems like the border police could shift tactics and just open up any container with an air tag in it. In addition to that, the air tag has to be registered with an Apple account, so that could eventually lead to a suspect as well.

Do you own a cat?

I had a phone with face unlock only during the pandemic and it was a pain when wearing a mask. Having both is essential, IMHO.

Linux support on the Apple silicon should be considered experimental, and unless you’re experienced with Linux you should probably avoid trying to run it (except in a VM). Windows probably won’t work at all (except in a VM). If you’re going to virtualise other operating systems, you’ll definitely need more than 8GB of RAM.

Pretty sure even in college you’d start running stuff in docker and the like these days. 8GB has been a ridiculously low amount of ram for 5 years now. You should get 16GB at least, preferably more.