I had this exact same problem when I switched from windows to fedora KDE a couple months ago. The solution for me was to install the proprietary nvidia Linux drivers. The OS has some already bundled, but I found some other people online have this issue until they switched drivers and I gave shot. Im on my phone so I dont have any links or much else to give you rn, but if you need me to provide more info I can when I get back on my PC.

it takes a long time to register and I say "what" but I'm just buying time to respond.

This is how I realized I was experiencing APD when I learned about it. It helps explain some of the masking that I do.

Funny part is I play music and its not usually a problem and I play by ear a lot. Occasionally it does trip me up, but the better I get, the less of an issue that is.

I had the same problem until I installed the nvidia drivers. KDE will install some that gets things to work but I had that sleeping problem you mention. I can't remember the exact package name but I can try and figure it out if you need help finding it.

Ya I also use librewolf and I find it fairly intuitive to start at a more hardened place and enable convenience as needed. Though these days I find most sites work great even with full fingerprint protection.

Because if google kills side loading on all non custom os devices, that removes the incentive for open source developers to make software if there is no way to distribute it. So even custom OS's will feel this unfortunately. We might still have viable options, but nothing like we see today.

This sucks! I had the pleasure of seeing him a few years ago at least. Def one of my favorite dnb artists. I hate this happened to him and will likely happen to others

Yppp

Feeling this one too hard

Congrats on 2 years! Im in a similar boat where I don't remember my 20s either but I got sober around 30 and have been picking up the pieces ever since. Thanks for sharing your story.

Ive had good results basically dicing the mozz into little cubes

For the first question, I would base my search on things like the extensiveness of the results, authentication, pricing, usability, etc. If you don't have any specific criteria right away, try making a few calls and playing with it to see if it will be what you needed. Some APIs I'll find its missing this one thing that makes another api a better choice. This is something you'll get better at with experience.

And no youre not expected to know all the tools, there are about an infinite out there. Generally youre expected to be familiar with some of the tools of the job but knowing more can't hurt either. Take things one thing at a time and make some simple project with what you've learned. That's how I do it anyways, but everyone is different.

Ya I will say they do tend to try and push you towards the membership in a few different ways but its not too bad overall.