Not using it, not gonna use it. I prefer my skills to be improving, not growing reliant on a glorified “smart” copy-paste.

~0.5kg of assorted leaf teas for 90€? I’d say it’s on the cheaper side, at least in comparison to what I can get either here, or by importing.

In other words: if you’re going to drink it, fingers crossed these are good. If the okumidori is what it claims it is, it’ll be worth it (although if I can read this properly, one brew off of a serving there seems to be on the low end; try steeping it more than once).

LLMs are an okay’ish tool if your code style is not veering from what 99% of the open-sourced codebase looks like. Use any fringe concept in a language (for example, treat errors as values in languages ridden with exceptions, use functional concepts in an OOP language) and you will have problems.

Also, this crap tends to be an automated copy-paste. Which is especially bad when it skips on abstracting away a concept you would notice if you were to write the code yourself.

Source: own experience 😄

• Equipment: yeah, I have a decent set of speakers at home and headphones to listen while on the move. Sound quality matters, so a decent set is worth it for me.
• Albums vs random: I got used to listening stuff album-wise (with some albums not doing listening to their entirety takes away from the experience). As for favorites:
  • “Feathers & Flesh” and “Dance Devil Dance” by Avatar,
  • “Dead & Alive” by Parasite Inc.,
  • “Faceless” and “The Oracle” - Godsmack.
  • “Mezmerize” - SOAD
• Listening as the only activity: yeah, though more often than not I listen to music to drown out the world.
• Talk with others about it: too often. Though I’m afraid there’s very little ppl in my immediate surroundings that can dig into what I listen to 😅
• Spending time searching for music: not anymore, have a base I enjoy.
• Art or content: art. The feeling of chills going down my spine on a particularily well-constructed chorus / instrumental part is like no other feeling for me.

From your list I ran the following:

• Bazzite: worked AMAZINGLY (to the point of me double-checking whether I’m getting any updates 😆) until some image screwed up the boot process (some versions I could boot into, some were crapping out right after GRUB). Can recommend if you have a relatively normal hardware configuration (so, as long as your machine is not a Clevo-reseller laptop with NVIDIA GPU and Intel CPU, you should be fine).
  • Addendum: some binaries might not be available for you OOTB due to Bazzite’s root filesystem being immutable. Read their docs on how to run packages / binaries that do require root access (or learn basics of self-hosting, I guess…?).
• Nobara: FUBAR’d it myself through… Well, being an idiot (had SOME regrets about that 😅); ran into some small issues with GPG keys, but otherwise used it w/o any major problems (see above) for… I think a year with some change? Can wholeheartedly recommend it, as long as you’re somewhat familiar with what RPM packages are and how to work around issues with their signatures (usually - a trivial matter); updates are not as smooth as on Bazzite.
• CachyOS: my current daily driver. Barring some extremely minor issues in some games (usually solvable through Proton options- and versions fiddling), as was the case with Nobara - can wholeheartedly recommend it (this time, without caveats; despite the memery around Arch, it feels stable; the updates by default are a bit more annoying than on Bazzite though, similar in nature to Nobara: you get a notification “X packages have updates”).

Not really, at least in the books; the movies cut out quite a bit of what was happening after the One Ring was destroyed

Ah, the classical “just introduce tests in a legacy codebase”, what can go wrong?

My condolences, it’s always a BITCH to handle

I distro-hopped from Bazzite to CachyOS recently, and frankly - I’m not surprised it’s up there in terms of popularity. While Bazzite was much less obtrusive with updates (hell, I had to check whether I was getting amy 😆), CachyOS makes due with a lot less resources (Bazzite’s 6 vs Cachy’s 3.5GBs of RAM on stand-by, don’t remember the installation size, tbh) than Bazzite.

It also has a relatively sensible default when it comes to updates, as it automatically performs BTRFS snapshots through snapper, Tumbleweed-style.

Time will tell if it’s as stable as Bazzite was (though frankly, I distro-hopped because 3 or 4 straight updates were not booting for me 😅).

Tl;dr: Arch base + sensible defaults make for good selling points on gaming rigs.

uses WinForms for it’s UI

Sounds like a project I wouldn’t want to contribute to 😆

Source: spent a couple years maintaining a product written in that PoS framework

So basically, this…?