cdparanoia is old but has always worked fine, even on crappy drives and damaged disks. Even many modern tools like cyanrip just use cdparanoia to do the actual ripping, just wrapping it in a new UI. You will need to convert the output with another tool, but this is quite easy. (For mp3 disks, just mount them and copy the files, no special tools needed)
Where thinkpad?
Let them cook, the result is almost guaranteed to be amusing.
Your going to have to read the input one piece at a time, allocating a bigger buffer as you go. (realloc is the way to go here) I recommend putting the input reading code in a function do you can easily use it multiple times.
A lot of people have old phones whose batteries are to degraded to be useful for much, those could be used as servers with much less problems then any other phone (no spotty connectivity, no changing mobile network ips, no cutting into the battery life of your phone)
How do you tell if someone is an Arch user? You don't, they will tell you.
Just learn how to configure your containers.
The simple solution here is to try to contact someone before assuming they have been kidnapped. Of course the goal of scammers is to make you panic, and stop thinking rationally. A deepfake could definitely help with that.
The only real time I use a debugger is to tell me what line a default occured at.
It does not, right now I can see posts from other instances (like this one), without leaving mine (discuss.tchncs.de). You might actually get a better experience on smaler instances, as the big three (lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, bbeehaw.org) can get quite slow at times.
Either phishing (send fake link, get you to enter password), or someone messing with you by signing up with your email