ubuntu just feels like debian with unwanted mods on top. if some specific proprietary sw you need only support ubuntu officially then ubuntu's the better choice, but if not i see no reason to use it tbh
i believe it has the advantage of corporate interests not affecting the projects direction. i think linux is doing ok now (other than way too much redhat stuff) but i'm not sure if this is gonna continue after linus is gone.
IA is a nonprofit and archives to preserve human history. shitty AI startups do this to monetize the data, and their end goal is to "replace" the people who made that data in the first place.
Thanks to these AI mfs the IA now prevents access to many items because they can be used as training material which fucking sucks
xmpp. don't matrix, it causes selfhosting-phobia for normies because its ui sucks. i had a friend try matrix with me for a while and now they're never trying another foss messenger again unless its proved to be very good.
there's few old scripts (mostly for mailing list archive usage) that takes mbox input and outputs html. not pretty but they could work in this case. searching is another issue though
ik proprietary shitware and all that stuff but there are good games for playstation. fun to play, no pay to win bs like mobile phone games these days