Brand recognition is a double-edged sword. I am less likely to consider a brand/product for purchase the more ads I see for it.

I've avoided all Ubisoft games after the DRM on one of them nearly broke my PC about 10-12 years ago.
Of course I don't assume that my drop missing in their ocean made any difference at all, but maybe I'm not the only one.

Yes; I did not say that it's impossible, only that it's very difficult. And then they never did it again, because it was easier to do with the conventional isotopes such as Pu239 and U235.
In all isotope chains there are candidates for use as fissile bomb material, but some are just not worth the effort to use.

The U233 produced in thorium reactors is mixed with U232, which is very difficult to separate and highly radioactive, which poses great obstacles to using it for bomb making purposes.

Try Pulsar instead for playing music. It does not behave like that and I find it more lightweight and with a better UI than VLC for this purpose. I still use VLC for video.

I played with svt-av1/ffmpeg about a year ago and my conclusions were about the same as yours or worse. Depending on the source material, the space/bandwidth savings were between about 15% and -10% (yes, 10% larger than the source material) while power consumption and CPU utilization was much larger that software h264/265

The main problem with perchlorates in dust isn't that they're oxidizers. They are directly poisonous to humans, they shut down the thyroid gland which regulates metabolism. Breathing martian dust = breathing poison.

BTW I run Arch.

They were right, at least in my case.
Very happy with Arch. :)

Pebble ZX Spectrum? Shut up and take my money. :)

"famous French intolerance of English speakers" in my experience is a myth.
I speak French. In fact French is my second language, and English the third. I have lived in France for a while, a number of years ago.
I now have an American family. When traveling to France with them for vacation, I speak to the "natives" in French. But said natives, noticing that the others speak English, will speak back to me in English. It's been happening over and over and over again.
There is no intolerance, at least none that I have experienced.

Anecdotal evidence in my CDW-3170HL (color laser printer, about 12 years old - unfortunately not manufactured anymore because it's a very good one): no. I have been using third-party toner sets in it for years without any problems.

I have a Canon Pixma printer which I like. It has refillable ink tanks and ink is cheap, print quality is more than decent.
It's not networked however.
Not a big problem. I've repurposed a 10-year-old miniPC (atom CPU, not much power) that I had laying around not used for anything else; installed Xubuntu on it and use it as a print server for the Pixma. I've actually permanently attached the miniPC to the back of the printer. :)

Ehhh forget it.

I have used Let's Encrypt in the past, but don't anymore. While the service is useful, the automated renewal does not work when you use nonstandard ports and there is no workaround except to renew each certificate manually. It was enough of a hassle to do that every 90 days. I can't imagine what a nightmare would be to do it every 6 days.