God, I hate that meme format so much. It adds absolutely fucking nothing. It's insufferable.

Can't help you there, I buy CDs and lossless copies from Bandcamp and Qobuz. Those work for me.

Aw yeah, I also love browsing the internet on meth!

I've been using ad blockers since the early 2000's. Ads with noise is what did it for me. Pop-ups too were super annoying. There was also malware in some ads back in the day. So yes, ads poisoned the internet a long time ago and I absolutely refuse to browse the internet without one. Or two.

I like Bottles. Makes Wine less of a hassle.

Konsole does everything I need it to.

I have a Mobian community edition PinePhone with postmarketOS and it is my daily driver. It suits my humble needs, but these few years have been a mixed bag. Especially with Mobian I've had periods of it working great, punctuated by periods with annoying issues. I stopped using the phone for a while when it suddenly stopped taking calls but I didn't notice since there was no indication of trouble. My family reported me missing when they couldn't reach me after a few days. Luckily that was then sorted out, but it wasn't great. This hasn't happened since.

postmarketOS has been pretty solid and seems to perform better than Mobian.

After a few years I'm starting to think I need a new battery, but the official store has been out of stock for a while. I'm not sure if they will ever get more parts. Communication from Pine64 has also slowed down to a crawl, which is not great. At least their official monthly blog was last updated in august. At the moment I'm somewhat skeptical of their future. We'll see.

Be warned though: the PinePhone can browse the web and banking probably works, but watching, say, youtube is not going to be a great experience. You're probably better off using alternative solutions like Pipeline. The PinePhone is not a powerful machine and you will have tinker every now and then.

Having said all that, if you set your expectations correctly you can probably get along with a PinePhone as your daily driver. I'm not sure if I can recommend it because there are many caveats, but in the end you know your needs and what you're comfortable with better than I do. I like my PinePhone and I surely wish more people get Linux phones and that the ecosystem evolves.

Thanks for the stick pic!

You didn't give much info to go on, so maybe try Distrochooser. Honestly, most distros should work out fine. If you like Ubuntu, maybe try Mint.

I've stuck with DuckDuckGo for years. It's mostly gotten pretty good if you search in English. Other languages can be iffy.

Hans Reiser developed ReiserFS, which was a good fs for it's time, and was then convicted of murdering his wife.

Choosing a browser has been picking between terrible choices for a long time now. It's a shame.