I see people recommending Debian but you also said you enjoy tinkering, so I'd recommend SpiralLinux. It's basically Debian but it uses BTRFS so you can roll back to a previous snapshot if you break something. I don't think Spiral has updated to Trixie yet so you'd need to manually upgrade but that's not too big a hassle if you do it immediately.

So the NVIDIA graphics card is not as big of an issue as it would have been even five years ago. Just use the proprietary drivers. And for my money, Linux Mint is the best distro for beginners, hands-down. You never have to touch the command line and everything just works.

David Bowie is overrated.

I feel like you made this chart for me specifically, so thank you

There's a couple new things being worked on; namely, Wayback and Phoenix.

OK but the point of ChubbyEmu videos isn't "this thing is GOING TO KILL YOU," it's "look at this weird thing that happened and the toxicology behind it,." In fact, he goes out of his way to reassure people that these things aren't likely to happen in the videos where viewers might get anxious, like the cases involving leftovers. There's been a couple videos where he's straight-up said "this was a freak accident."

More generally, the fact that the events aren't likely is part of what can make case studies valuable; i.e. "this sequence of events is highly unlikely to happen again in this specific way, so let's examine it closely and see what we can learn from it."

He got sober in the 90s, but Elton John was notorious for using shit-tons of cocaine back in the day and was an alcoholic as well.

the tribe will leave me behind on the next migration when I'm too old and weak to keep up.

FWIW, this part is almost certainly not true.

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/these-4000-year-old-bones-reveal-a-shocking-secret-about-humanitys-earliest-caregivers

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable

https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2017/ancient-spinal-injury-a-story-of-survival.php

These are just a handful of these types of stories, there's loads more if you want to search for them. But the upshot is: your family or tribe would have taken care of you to the best of their ability, for as long as they could, and you would have been given a decent burial when you died.

Really surprised no one's mentioned Everclear, but that might just be because no one thinks about Everclear that much

You're probably right

Seconding (or third-ing, or twelfth-ing) the recommendation for Linux Mint, but also gonna throw one in for MX Linux if the hardware is older.

I've been to at least one distillery and a hydroelectric dam. These days, your best bet is probably to just check the website of wherever it is you wanna go to.