https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-disable-annoying-ads-on-windows-11

You will need to after Oct 2025 unless you want Linux or Mac OS

This meme is older than Windows 11

I'm pretty sure Mozilla becoming a cheap Google clone is not good long term

I run Mixtral on my CPU

It is great that works for you. However, you are not everyone

John Allen, who served as president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the "ultimate" roller coaster as one that "sends out 24 people and they all come back dead"

Don't follow the "official" instructions as that's not the best practice. Install the VScode flatpak or better yet use VScodium

Yeah pretty much

127.0.0.1->127.0.0.2....... 127.0.0.254-> 127.0.0.1

That would be a great way to piss off the school

Don't download software from some random website.

Instead, use your package manager to install it or use something that ships with it. I would recommend Debian as its very stable and the installer gives you the option to install LXDE if you so choose. (Side note: LXDE isn't well maintained) You likely will want to enable flatpaks for newer application support but that is pretty easy to do. Just go to flathub.org and choose how to install and then Debian

Switches are kind of stupid from a hardware perspective. A basic switch just has a lookup table that has all the connected devices and if it can't find the destination address in the switch sends it out on all ports. There are protocols to handle this but they add overhead and are only available on higher end devices.

You can imagine what kind of chaos this could cause