The rocks could be tightly packed silt, loose sandstone, or maybe mica from excavation. Pictures would help.
Considering how problematic water heaters can be, I'd refuse shipment on that. Especially with the glass lining. It looks like someone hit it with a forklift or something.
Actually just had a short conversation with @ruud about the latency. We're going to try and address that for those of us outside of Europe.
Looking good, you love to see it!
Yes, 100% this. Debian stable, no GUI for servers. Never have a problem.
Yes, I'm very proud of the Reddit community for several times over the years mass-recommending open source and federated options.
Waves/Waves 2! Fantastic twin stick shooters, now free as well. Both have great chip tune soundtracks.