I’d love to read your explanation for each distro’s ranking.

As someone else has pointed out, it really depends on your use case. Although I personally keep my drives (SSD & HDD) in a redundant RAID configuration as my data is largely mission-critical.

Not that I’d recommend doing this, but back when I was younger, I had the not so bright idea that I could go to work come home, game the whole night, then go back to work. It was a terrible idea in hindsight, but I used to it a lot. To achieve this, I used to mix energy drinks and pre-workout to stay awake, and I’d drink it as though I was drinking water, so I ended up drinking a butt load. I just want to stress again though that I’d never recommend actually doing this though unless as a last resort, but even then I’d caution away from it. I get there are times when one feels they absolutely must stay awake, God knows the amount of times I accidentally slept through something, and ruined relationships, but as others have said planning is probably the issue you’re facing.

This what you’re looking for?

If you want to self-host Lemmy you can just use this easy install script, just make sure to modify the config file to suite your setup it’s only a couple variables, and it’s pretty self-explanatory. https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

The “official web app” is how people can self-host Lemmy, to access it as a user it’s just the website.

Here are some links to places you can find communities:

• https://lemmyverse.net
• https://sub.rehab/?visibleServices=lemmy
• https://browse.feddit.de/
• https://redditmigration.com/

There’s one other one, but I can’t remember it, I’ll update this if I can.

You could do your programming theoretically on any laptop, although I’d say faster the better/easier it’ll be for you in the long run. In regard to your comment on upgradability I’d recommend taking a look at a Framework laptop where their whole goal is repairability which comes with the added benefit of being upgradable.

If I still used YT’s main front-end, this would’ve been great.

I wonder if someone has already created a bot that asks chat-GPT to create a piece of code, grabs it to try and run it, and then just goes back and forth with chat-GPT to fix the errors. Now the code would probably be a complete mess, but I wonder if non-coders could use it to create helpful one-off tools they can’t find anywhere else.