American with an accent that is functionally General American here: it’s day-duh, the t gets flapped. Dah-ta sounds very off to my ears, if anywhere in the US pronounces it that way, it’s probably one of the weirder accents from the northeast.

I have before. I liked it broadly, but could not fix issues with artifacting while playing video in Firefox. It’s a small issue, but enough to make me go back to Arch and/or Debian.

I mean, it was for on campus use, but I bought one in college to have a cheap note taker and basic homework machine for on campus that wouldn’t set me back too far if it got stolen or broken. I had a gaming desktop at home and was in a non-technical major, so it worked out great.