I think going out an meeting people IRL is what I will go for next.

Does Omarchy count as Arch?

The school IT department is often the math teacher’s side hustle or a badly paid gamer dude with Microsoft certifications.

Surveillance and tracking is the least of their concerns.

Users

The long update has the advantage of providing an opportunity to touch grass.

You can always export stl or dxf files and use them with other software.

Tradition is loving your ancestors’ wisdom.

Affinity Suite for Linux would be a game changer.

The alternative to FreeCAD on Linux is OnShape running in the browser.

Backups are a good idea.

What communities can you recommend?

Leftist spaces have changed a lot over the last two decades. Not for the better.

Cancel Culture Culture is real and extremely aggressive among the left.

Lemmy doesn’t have quality debates on politics either. The mods in the relevant communities swing the ban hammer liberally against everyone not following their opinion. Mainstream democrat talking points get banned as fascist. Antisemitic stuff is widespread as well.

You mostly get woke to extreme left echo chambers going on.

!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a good place to see this moderation in action.

Lemmy has neither.

M1 Model is outdated and no longer sold.

Most people install at least some kind of software from outside the App Store.

Popular examples: VLC Media Player, LibreOffice, Adobe Software, Firefox, Dropbox, Transmission, TeamViewer

Especially lots of FOSS applications aren’t on the AppStore, many aren’t even notarized.

Cracked pirated software isn’t notarized either of course.

Making something that goes boom is easy. Making something that can contain a boom and channel the boom into only one direction is difficult. Quality metallurgy and precision metal work is actually difficult. Making a tube and a projectile that fit each other nicely is very hard to do at scale.

Increase contrast is also a worthwhile option.

I’m sure someone will use rust to build a bloated reactive declarative dynamic UI framework, that wastes cycles, eats memory, and is inscrutable to debug.

Look for native macOS games. There are more than enough of any genre.