liliumstar

Both the T14s and X1 Carbon would be good options. I also have an x390 which I quite like.

I don't know how steamos works, but if it's arch-based, can you just do pacman -Syu to update?

kitty, nvim, fish, zed, mpv, btop, borg. Weird how all the gone ones have short names. Depending on the system, I would add tlp as well.

rin is pretty much the place for stuff like that

It is alive on their home tracker, BLU, with 4 seeds.

It sounds like you just need some good release groups to focus on. Ditch automation and sort out what exactly you want, then phase back in radarr.

For my desktop, I have two disks. One is root, one is home. They are single BTRFS filesystems with automated snapshots, compressions, and a few subvolumes. Works great.

For a laptop, similar but with only a single disk/partition and FDE. Also works well.

Arch on desktop/laptop because I'm very comfortable with it, and I can set it up the way I like.

Debian on servers because it's stable and nearly everything has a package available, or at least instructions for building.

Same as OP, but I'm not likely to change them out. I've tried a lot of distros over the years and this is what works best for me.

I run such games on Linux now, mostly with wine/proton. There is some risk, sure, but I'd largely say that system is still secure. If something comes by and wipes out the system, I have snapshots of anything important, including root and home. If those are gone, I have versioned backups offsite and maybe offline. I don't expect to receive any malware targeting my somewhat esoteric software choices from windows games, so I feel okay logging into a secure sevice, for example, but I may have to adjust this in the future.

With regards to smartphones, I think there are so many holes that it's not much more secure, if any, than a paranoid desktop setup. From time to time I have installed random APKs and had extreme anxiety each time. I am massively more paranoid about my phone as I don't have real control over what's running on it. Hoping for more competitive open source solutions in the future.

Generally speaking, opening non-executable files is fine. There are and have been specific exploits which allow arbitrary code execution, but it's dependent on the application/library loading them. The bigger danger is files disguised as other things. This is especially bad on Windows as it likes to hide that information from users, or just execute random embedded vbscripts, or whatever. Also see the recent whatsapp mimetype bug/exploit. Certain things pose more of a risk than others. PDFs (thanks adobe) can embed arbitrary javascript which is meant to be executed. Same as web pages, of course, but browsers have a lot more attention to sandboxing.

Edit: I don't really run cracked software anymore, but I have VMs ready to go if need be. Would recommend others do the same.

Air is actually good, but they don't have a lot of fast servers. You are naturally limited by the server you choose and peering.

MakeMKV is non-free proprietary software. It just happens to be free while in beta, which it has been forever. There's not a lot of great free software solutions that do the same thing, in fact it's the main (or only) way people extract 4k BDs with the FEL intact.

You could get started with Qt, specifically the legacy widgets. There are bindings for Python available (pyside or pyqt) if you don't want to learn C++ or another language right away. You can also port your GUI definitions to other languages at a later date.