Lots of technologies could be used to improve things, but corporations just look at profit, not improving the human condition. Just like Ford patenting the system to listen to you in the car and serve you better ads, AI will trend toward making more ad sales, and models trained will lean to this always. It is why OpenSource stuff is so important, its the unpaid or low paid people doing cool stuff to solve actual problems that innovate to a goal of solving , not to goal of monotizing. Like Windows 11 is ad bloatware. The amount of tech and money MS could leverage and instead they build an ad OS, that they are now backporting to Windows10.
Meanwhile OpenSource devs build a linux distro that turned my 13 year old laptop (that choked and died on running W10 (was OK on W7)) into a peppy machine that handles web streaming, zoom calls, and opening files as fast as a brand new laptop. When money is not the end goal lots of good things happen

Zorin looks really nice and clean. I’m still waiting for them to release the Grid management tool…if that is actually going to happen

When I installed it it suggested turning that service off onvthe host. If you search online there are many suggestions on shutting off that stuff so 53 is left for pihole

https://github.com/jkbenaim/hs100 also works on some models not listed

Im surprise they installed them in the first place. First thing I did when somebody gave me TPlink Kasa smart plugs and switches was run the github code to swap the remote server lookup to 127.0.0.1

Same

It could have been earlier? i tried Ubuntu around 2012. I didn’t know how to get rid of the Amazon stuff, and it turned me off Linux…thinking why use this OS that is ad based…wasn’t till 2017 when W10 made our computers slow that I tried linux again.

When i met my wife she had a lof of anxiety about planes; white knuckled flights, tears,took calming pills, barfing etc. Last year she tried skydiving for her 50th birthday. I can’t believe she actually did it. :)

I love me an old map. Sadly I lost my Orienteering compass many moves ago

Don’t know the issue you faced, but if it can help DBT is another approach for issues. I took a “course” in it to help support my child going through it.

Anything in /etc/systemd/system as vboxautostart?

Anything in /etc/default/ virtualbox file?

Use google translate, it has lots of languages to transcribe to

Stract.com open search engine a guy built in his basement. It is not perfect but feels like Google used to in the late 90s, when you had real results

Check for Iron and B vitamin deficiency if doc didn’t already suggest it.

Binary blobs i thought

Sure, but RustDesk is not entirely opensource, there are key binary parts.

I guess i was meaning compared to DOS but modern Windows, where stupid stuff is broken, and they care more about ads than creating a clean OS

It still amazes me how well thought out unix was for the era when computing was in its infancy. But I guess that is what you get with computer science nerds from Universities and a budget for development based on making a product the goal, not quarterly profit the goal.

The stuttering YT showed up for me recently, it was fine months back. Something change in Firefox or a linux package, but I have been too lazy to investigate since I rarely watch youtube

Gimp works really well, just that it is destructive editting.

As for the software not having features or not being useful, part of that comes down to: if a company offers a linux version make sure you use it. For a proprietary MCAD and PLM system from Siemens, we had a unix version, then windows, then when Linux was viable with support on SUSE and RHEL we had the exact software OEM aerospace and Automotive engineers used for design and management. Trouble is not enough companies used it to make supporting it a worthwhile effort, so they ditched the GUI desktop support. You can still run the few years old version. Maybe it will come back with Linux rising from 1-2% to 4.5% ; if that trend continues