or do they often fail and vanish?

No. Niche, hipster, “latest hotness” distros sometimes vanish. Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Kali, Qubes, Mint are all examples of community maintained distros that have been around for a long time.

Since you’re looking for “stability” highly recommend Mint.

No.

When any criticism of the Israeli government or expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people is “antisemitic”, you’ve damaged and weakened the very meaning of the word “antisemitism” and the moral authority of those who wield it.

I got it and it’s funny, but I think lots of people need that /s tag or they don’t process it correctly.

Truth.

I feel like Calvin can probably be placated with Minecraft.

For many years I’ve had at least one Windows machine and at least one OSX machine (and then everything else runs linux). As MS started pushing this (and as Proton and Lutris got good enough to support almost any Windows software I would need to run, mostly games) I finally made the jump to zero Windows machines about a year and a half ago. Don’t miss it.

You can federate Matrix using Synapse.

I think if Matrix were easier to deploy, it would have a lot more adoption for this kind of thing. Once Matrix is set up and running, it runs great! Put energy toward improving Matrix deployment (and don’t give me yet another ansible playbook or docker file… it should be as easy to set up on bare metal as forgejo or you’re doin’ it wrong) instead of building something new from scratch.

Meh. I’ll be impressed when it plays Aria Math.

(j/k, this is awesome, I love it)

Everything works fine. It’s super handy having such fine control over my router.

OpenWRT.

Australians soon engaging in wider spread adoption of VPN and tor usage.

We would have gone extinct before we discovered fire.

Please don’t promote Red Cap politics disguised as software.

Even if they did, you can run VPNs over https, or make Tor disguise itself as other kinds of web traffic.

At a guess, the Venn diagram of people who would happily regularly pay for apps and people who have heard of flathub is teeny tiny.

Qubes or gtfo (troll answer, don’t listen to me)

Why would it be a bad idea?

I feel like there’s probably a way I could do the same thing without Comcrap as a middleman. Anyone written libraries for doing this kind of thing with an openwrt box and a bunch of Linux machines?

And yes, reading through Xfinity’s privacy policy indicates they do monitor the WiFi motion data, and will share it with law enforcement or other third parties without notifying you.

🙁