Did you just assume my distro?

For the record, I use Debian

People still use Ubuntu?

Man, I loved this game as a child. To think that I managed to complete it on my own, without looking up anything on the internet (because it wasn’t a thing for me yet)… honestly, I think the hints to the hidden paths are there, but very very subtle

It’s mostly not your fault. Apps, games, and socials are intentionally designed to be addictive. That’s because the more time you spend on them, the more ad revenue the owners make.

If sheer willpower doesn’t work, find other ways around it. Someone else already suggested going to a library or another place, that’s good advice. Of you phone is an issue, you could turn it off and allow yourself to turn it back on after you’ve been productive for an hour, or after you have achieved a specific goal.

Don’t take the Bible too literally

ncdu: shows how much disk space is used by each directory, can also explore subdirectories and delete files

tig: interactive terminal UI for git with lots of functionality

This could also be done to the RAM filling up and/or high I/O activity of the disk. I suggest to investigate these possibilies as well

A WM crash does not bring down all the other applications… but an X11 server crash definitely does!

In wayland they are the same program (a.k.a. the compositor). User applications can be designed to survive a compositor crash, though many are not able yet

And that’s the beauty of it. Figuring it all out, until “hey wow, it finally worked”

As others have said, only word documents may give you annoyances.

I’d suggest trying it in a virtual machine first. See if you can do what you want to do. Switch to different distros if you need to. If/when you’re convinced, make a proper installation.

Depends on what you expect them to do exactly. Today’s transistors aren’t much different than older ones, just smaller mainly. People of, say, 20-30 years ago may have the technology to inspect them (electron microscope or something like that), and the knowledge to understand them, but not the equipment to reproduce them.

If you go much farther back in time, say before integrated circuits (1960) or even transistors (1947) were invented, I think it’s unlikely that someone could reverse engineer the thing

I use syncthing to mirror to a raspberry pi NAS. Set it and forget it

Have you considered a shared folder with Syncthing?

Bugtober?

This is giving me PTSD flashbacks…

You could have advertising without creepy tracking surveillance. Contextual ads, based only on the content of the current page and nothing else. Still relevant, still makes money

Welcome to the club! My advice is, after you’re done with the installation, make a bootable external device with a live distro (e.g. a USB stick) and keep it around. Now, if your main system ever gets messed up and can’t boot anymore, you can boot the live one and start troubleshooting.

Don’t be scared by this suggestion: getting an unbootable system is not so common, but if it happens you’ll be glad you have something ready to work on it

https://pluralistic.net/ by Cory Doctorow, his insights on technology (especially what is going wrong with it) are eye-opening

Easy, just invert the polarity of the microwaves

Also .jar files. And good ol’ winamp skins. And CBZ comics. And EPUB books. And Mozilla extensions. And APK apps. And…