geographically unremarkable

True, but ouch

Our economy is a bit different, no offense, and that pricing seems fair to me :)

I can download whatever I need in <5 minutes and that’s totally sufficient for me.

I don’t think that’s too bad, sounds like Germany has come a long way.

My 1Gbps would be around 50 in Denmark (if I didn’t work for an isp lol)

Most hardware does 2.5Gbps out of the box these days.

I’ve had 1Gbps for 13 years now (in Denmark) and can comfortably say: it’s plenty

I just have a small counter on my Polybar checking how many packages can be updated. Once it reaches a few hundred, I upgrade.

The tool gdu is very nice for finding space culprits.

Never used Bazzite, but isn’t it heavy on packaged apps with snap or flatpak? Inherently space inefficient (and I despise them both passionately).

Don’t update all the time. I update every couple of days like a maniac, but once every few weeks is fine too.

There’s a distro for every level of “I want to do it myself” vs “I want everything to be made ready for me”.

There is archinstall which does everything for you. If you don’t wanna do anything yourself though, just check out CachyOS or EndeavourOS

Sure, but it would be illegal for a human to coerce/encourage a mentally ill person to commit crime (or worse).

So who’s responsible? Caretaker? Government?