Debian also has the latest security patches

Did you go buster -> bullseye -> bookworm or just straight to bookworm? It sounds like something got screwed up with the usr merge.

Books will teach the essentials: my core UNIX knowledge comes from an SVR4 book I read in the late 2000s (a decade or more after it was relevant) and it’s still applicable today

Docker Desktop on macOS?

What tax benefits? Sure they can deduct the donation, but that just cancels out the income from you giving them the money to donate. It’s net zero for the company.

Would GrapheneOS with default settings be immune since 2G is disabled and networks don’t have 3G anymore?

Well, I’ll tell you that I prefer systemd because I can comprehend its declarative unit files and dependency-based system a lot better than the shell script DSLs and runlevels that I’ve had to mess with in other init systems. systemctl status has a quite nice output that can be really handy when debugging units. I like being able to pull up logs for just about any service on my system with a simple journalctl command instead of researching where the log file is.

or inetd!

The real world benefit is that scrolling is smooth, not choppy.

I try my hand at packaging it for my distro.

That would be contrib - free software that downloads or relies on non-free software. non-free and non-free-firmware just contain straight up non-free (but redistributable) binaries.

Was this with the most recent version of Debian? Bookworm includes non-free firmware with the installer now.

Ubuntu did.

And? Why does that matter?

Is nicotine not a drug?

Nicotine is no better of a drug than many others you probably wouldn’t want kids taking. Just because it’s a vape doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly addictive.

When I’m confused like that, I check https://packages.debian.org and open the file list for the package. That way I know what binaries are installed.