It's allegedly happening, but we'll see if it's any good. The Mr Robot creator is in charge of it.

I've seen SSDs hit 100TB, but those are $40k+. And more "reasonable" options like 64TB for $10k or so.

HDDs just reached 30TB, but I don't think those are widely available yet. 24TB is the biggest you can expect to see for sale.

And knowing how hawkish their lawyers are, they've probably had their eyes on Palworld since it was announced anyway. If there was anything actionable, they would have jumped on it already.

Automating updates is generally frowned upon, that's when things can break. But waiting to run updates until you feel like it (instead of daily) is totally fine. I've been using Arch and its forks for years, and have always updated once a week unless something was wrong.

EndeavourOS or raw Arch would both fit that bill, you don't need to run updates every day just because they're available. Manjaro delays packages to "increase stability", but that's what causes it to break.

If it's anything like how the US deals with these things: tobacco is heavily taxed, vaping is taxed far less. They don't give a shit who uses nicotine, just that they do so in a profitable way.

If 2-4 TB makes you think "data hoarder", you don't even want to know what the self-proclaimed data hoarders get up to. 10-20 TB drives aren't insanely expensive, and some of us have several of them.

They own Cinemax. It's a subsidiary, not a competitor.

They're also adding an API version check on devices, which will affect old apps that have gotten around the store checks. Only affects devices that can upgrade to 14, but it's a solid step.

When I used to play CoD, I did something very similar to this. I'd spawn with a knife (and maybe a pistol), and had to "earn" better guns by grabbing them from kills. Like Gun Game, but more fun since everybody else was properly equipped.

It sounds simple and silly, but it kept me playing those games for 2ish years longer than I would have otherwise.

We just need the rest of the Linux gang to experience the glory of pacman+AUR, it's not our fault they don't listen.

From experience, ignore your instincts and give pure Arch a try. It's a lot more stable than you'd think, and their wiki has very thorough instructions for everything.

It's a bit of a trial by fire on your terminal knowledge, but you'll learn a ton in the process. Worst case, you get fed up trying and just go to Fedora or something after.