I have a theory that being a too-many-tabs person correlates strongly with how many captchas you see. So if you have 300 tabs open, and then you need to restart your browser and recover your tabs, your computer is hitting a whole bunch of cloudflare (or whatever centralized captcha org) sites at once which raises suspicions. And orgs like cloudflare probably track IP address reputations, almost like blacklists.

Is this on track? Is there anything out on the 'net that might back this up? Or debunk it?

Can someone tell me why the Linux community is so opposed to configuration by editing files?

Why must every configurable thing have a CLI or GUI stuck in front of it?

Editing files is nice. It's universal. It just works. And it is fundamentally very UNIX-like.

If the first answer to any problem on a Linux system is "oh just update all the packages again" that is evidence of a broken and fragile package management system.

My experience (at home) with Manjaro so far has been absolutely terrible compared to my experience (at work) with CentOS and Rocky Linux.

With Manjaro, working packages regularly break after updates or new installs. It's clearly not managing dependencies properly. And I've had other weird problems on Manjaro. File permissions going wrong. Repo authorization keys getting corrupted. Updates stomping on changes I've made to the system (after looking for and not finding user-space overrides to effect the same changes).

I tried Manjaro at home because of @gardiner_bryant, and because I do some gaming at home (and to try something new). But it has not been smooth experience. And I say that as someone who has been on Unix/Linux since 1986 (with many years in the middle on OSX /MacOS at home, until finally Apple destroyed too much of the Unix soul in their misguided effort to make their computers more like their phones).

Am I just having bad luck or is this really just sort of normal for Linux usage?

Finally, I guess what irks me the most is the blind "just update everytjing again" advice, where my old Unix instinct tells me that I should find the actual problem and fix that one thing (change a file's permission; add another version of a single library; etc.) Is that approach also dead now?

What's your favorite FIrefox and Chrome extensions for putting back traditional Unix/X11 editing keys?

The specific behaviors I rely on are:
Ctrl-A: beginning of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-E: end of line
Ctrl-K: kill to end of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-D: Delete next character [CHANGED]
Ctrl-F: forward a char
Ctrl-B: backward a char
Maybe a couple others I'm not remembering.

(These are actually emacs-style editing keys and I'm a vi user, but for command line in shell, and (previously) on Unix/Linux/Mac browsers these keys have long been standard, and are hard-wired beyond hope for me. But browser makers have recently decided to WINDOWS-ify all inputs.)

Can anyone explain to me like I'm 5 how shorter, automated certificates are an improvement in security, rather than an increased risk?

Seems as stupid as password aging, but worse, because encouraging automation is encouraging the creation of another, fragile, hackable system, while moving towards less human oversight than doing it manually.

Firefox is jumping the shark with this AI thing. A web browser helps you browse the web. it doesn't steal and summarize web content in order to prevent you from visiting web sites.

I think it's barely less disgusting than the blockchain web nonsense. But I acknowledge that it is possible that it is actually even more disgusting.

Is there a name for the trend in Millennials and Gen Z to mispronounce things because they don't talk to human beings often enough?

Like the Corridor Crew on YouTube, alleged experts in computer graphics, not knowing how to pronounce "Gaussian".

Or the number of young makers who pronounce the "L" in soldering (and are not British).

My strong suspicion is that they learned these words without talking to human beings, and then mispronounced them to each other, and the incorrect pronunciation was reinforced by their interactions with their peers, in the absence of interactions with older people.

Or in other words, where my generation relied on mentors for expertise, the modern generation learned most new things by googling them.

So either they see it in text, or they'd see videos made by other people in their own generation who also did not learn from mentors.

I was really annoyed when they stole a made-up word from Stargate SG-1 and (more or less) used it as a drug name (Tremfya).

But now they've stolen "Manjaro" and are using it as "Mounjaro", a drug name.