Churbleyimyam

bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh

I'll admit that I've done this with a few things that I wanted to install but weren't in my repo...

It's pretty amazing isn't it?! There's no way that I would have had the time and patience set up a server without it.

Check out Ardour for music production. You should be able to get older versions for free on most distributions or get the current version for a donation via their website.

Will I be OK updating from the Debian repo?

Interesting, I didn't know that. Is that controlled by the operating system or something else? I'm curious about whether my Debian laptop does the same.

Do you know if hugo blogs can federate?

Bitcoin is NOT based on thin air.

It's based on wasting loads of electricity.

Is Coreboot not fully open source?

Yeah, I'm still getting updates on my 2017 Dell Latitude!

I am honoured.

If either of my parents could use a computer it would run linux.

But then I have to do all of their online tasks anyway, so technically they are using linux.

Peachy. Sounds like there's nothing to worry about then (from a user POV).