Define ‘sold’ because everyone has its own understanding of what that term means. What are you worried about?

For tracking analysing the data is required. Even if user doesn’t do anything sophisticated, just upgrading the browser will change their fingerprint; services that track users need to be prepared for that. But consider that 34 bits is enough to uniquely identify every person on the planet. If you’re able to collect say 50 bits of information about a request, even if some information changes, you can cluster the requests and attribute to the same user.

Yes, that’s why I wrote ‘in this case’. Those two bits of information which are highly correlated with user’s behaviour on a website don’t meaningfully impact the privacy. And regarding Discord, having age attestation on OS level has a chance to reduce number of websites which ask for ID thus improving overall privacy.

You’re already uniquely identified: https://amiunique.org/. Privacy is a non-issue in this case.

My first recommendation is to just use graphical environment. My second is to try fbterm.

Terminal and console are two different things. Console is what you get if your computer boots up in text mode. Terminal is what you start inside graphical environment (X or Wayland). Which one are you having issues with? What does echo $TERM output? If it’s the former, how are you watching videos exactly? O_o If it’s the latter, setfont won’t do anything; you need to look at configuration of your terminal emulator or try a different one.

I would go with Debian package but for me the primary consideration is how much I care about having the latest version of given software. Often I don’t really care that much. Although it needs to be said that I’m on Debian testing.

With gl/Vulcan and some other libraries that’s pretty challenging to do if your goal is to become more portable not less portable.

I still don’t see how this is different from Windows. Games on Windows ship with DirectX. Ship whatever graphics libraries you need if you’re worried about ABI breaking.

Shipping also sort of different libraries with your proprietary game could also be a licensing issue.

No, it’s not. Any library you’re dynamically linking to that’s present in a Linux distribution, you can distribute yourself.

Linux ABI compatibility is a fuck.

I’m never convinced by this argument. If game developers have problems with ABI they can do what they’re already doing on Windows: ship their game with all the dependencies. Casual gamer’s Windows system might have more versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable than they have games installed. This had been my experience.