Bunsenlabs is worth a shot

Maybe https://www.bunsenlabs.org/

Second this. Easy to use and regular updates

Aren’t some companies thinking of releasing TVs that won’t work unless connected to the internet?

Twin Peaks

Getting a bit busier these days

Not sure if related, but this might help

Artix for similar reasons

Any mp3 players that support scrobbling out there?

That’s even worse!

I think there’s an Ublock rule to get around this.

A Thinkpad will have to do

That and nearly everyone else has those same thoughts.

Pretty sure DDG, Ecosia and Bing all use the same backend?

It is. That or it was very coincidentally down for the exact amount of time as DDG.

XMMS, Beep, Audacious or whatever were always good enough.

Where’s the best place to start?

LFS?

And yay

Wouldn’t that be Gentoo?