My take: I don't recommend distros like mint because they're windows-y, I do it because they're good 'shit just works' starting points and Linux newbies probably don't need to be spending 2 hours figuring out why audio doesn't work or whatever. Once they get their feet under them and learn their way around a shell, etc then they can start playing around with other distros if they like.
FWIW I have a friend that made pretty decent money doing IT work up on the Alaskan oil fields. Paid well, but it was months of living in the middle of nowhere. Might not be as bad these days. I could see them having satellite internet and stuff. Also, this assumes you have IT skills and can deal with being nowhere for months.
People tend to really suck at limiting themselves. If you're wandering around in gemini space you're not going to run into pages with lots of ad banners, trackers and other monetization BS. You pretty much can't. On the web, you can run into simple fast pages but it's getting less and less the norm. And the lack of easy ways to monetize means it's unattractive to corporations, which helps avoid creeping enshittification.
Gemini is light, simple, and easy to parse. It's just lightly marked up text. Compare the size of Lagrange with the size of Chrome or Firefox. And nobody is forcing you to use it. 🙂
Linux is bloat. You should be entering your own minimal kernel in microcode via front panel switches at boot instead of being so wasteful. What do you think all that RAM and drive space is for? Holding data??
(Seriously, the modern minimalist thing is hilarious to me and I've been using computers since 16K of RAM was impressive...)
I amuse myself with coding, and for the last couple of years, slowly teaching myself spanish. I know it's a little thing that will probably never matter to anyone, but it feels kind of cool that I can open mexican newspapers and not go "Wtf is this gibberish?"
TIL I've been breaking the TOS for years. I regularly use a VPN to access steam, though only incidentally as the machine is usually connected to the VPN all rhe time. Never had a problem.
Any time I've ever had a server of any kind connected to the net it's gotten endless 'doorknob turning' from bots scanning for stuff. At the very least, bots trying ssh passwords on common accounts.
I don't have any specific jellyfin advice, but random attempts from all over is pretty usual on the net these days.
(originally yoinked from I can't remember who, in the early days of Mastodon)
or more recently, a 10-hour loop of the Sardukar chant from Dune. It's right about the right frequency to block a lot of the noise around here and it isn't anything intelligible for my brain to keep me awake thinking about.
If I just want some noise-blocking sound while I'm trying to code or something then myNoise has a vast array of sound generators. It was well worth kicking them $5 a while back.
My take: I don't recommend distros like mint because they're windows-y, I do it because they're good 'shit just works' starting points and Linux newbies probably don't need to be spending 2 hours figuring out why audio doesn't work or whatever. Once they get their feet under them and learn their way around a shell, etc then they can start playing around with other distros if they like.