openSUSE Tumbleweed has served me well for some time now. Maybe give it a look-see?

They are the true blue bloods of the animal kingdom, they are already at the pinnacle.

The male lion then killed the cubs so the female lions would go in to heat. Nature is majestic.

Been using Plasma Wayland for a few years now with minimal issues.

I'd be perfectly fine if everything was just mixed mono. I see little value in stereo. I'm weird like that.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan.

I refuse to accept that there is nothing we can do about it.

I don't think you quite understand just how stupendous the amount of data Google processes from YouTube alone is. There is basically no way for hobbyists to provide an equivalent service. Very few companies have those kinds of resources. If you want, you can of course try running a PeerTube instance, but you rather quickly run in to problems with scaling.

I find it almost miraculous YouTube exists to begin with. It is no accident Google has very few competitors on that front, and I don't think YouTube is even profitable for them. Without Google's deep pockets and interest in monopolizing the market, YouTube would have withered a long time ago.

Trust me, I want a solution too. But 500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. All of that is processed, re-encoded, and saved with multiple bitrates. You can't compete with that. YouTube might eventually keel over from Enshittification and its own impossibility, but replacing it with anything meaningful will be a challenge.

I bought Tales of Maj'Eyal from GOG and have been playing the Linux port. Yeah, I'd say it's my favorite. Even if I hate it sometimes.

If you want Debian with more frequent updates, consider going Debian sid. Base Debian is also fine, maybe with Flatpaks for more up-to-date applications where needed.

I run irssi on a Raspberry Pi. It has everything I need.

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

Disappoint is a sober word here. I am actually pissed at the casual arrogance of Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical.

I'm actually baffled that this would come as a surprise to people. Canonical has been like this for a long time and you'd have to have blinders on to not see it. They are hell-bent on doing things their way and ignoring the wider Linux community and even their users. That is, of course, their prerogative and to some degree I even welcome their attempts at differentiating their distro from others. As a user though you should be aware of their history and the apparent direction they're heading.

I just wish they'd stop stalling and went all-in on snaps already, since that's pretty obviously where they're headed.

Back in the day when I was running Gentoo, in the long long ago, Firefox was one of the few things I installed as a binary, since compiling it took hours. Compiling it every time there was an update would have driven me crazy. From what I gather this is still true for most users. Yeah, go for the Flatpak if at all possible.

Super Mario Bros. I like the movie, but I can definitely see why people don't.

I'm going to go with a classic and recommend Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Don't try, just quit. You can't hesitate. It's awful, I know. The first month was the hardest, the second month was even harder. But it does get easier eventually. You really can't listen to the Nicotine Imp sitting on your shoulder though: all it tells are lies, lies, lies. "Just one more and that's it" is a delusion. Always keep in mind why you are quitting and focus on that.

You can do it, you have the willpower. You are stronger than tobacco.

Oh... Oh no...

Pine64 has also had terrible communication for a while now and their site has had technical issues for a month. They have not filled me with confidence as of late.

postmarketOS is great though.

maybe he’d show a bit of interest.

Fuck that. When you have a kid, you are interested in them no matter who they are. Even if they are the most boring dumbfuck in the world, you are interested in your kid. There was nothing wrong with you, the issue was all him. It took me a long time to realize this for myself too, but now I know.

I'm sorry for your loss. For the father who died, and the father you never had.

Kind of sounds like you just want Debian with netinst image and then do an Expert install. Afterwards you might want to migrate repos to sid. Good luck!