College towns aren't even changing. Republicans are sprinting towards christian nationalist fascism and the people with any exposure to people slightly different than themselves (like near college towns) aren't falling for the lies perpetuated by rightwing social media and fox news.
Bro, keep eating good fibre and you'll never know. People do this because they're blind to the consequences of their shitty diet. Every sodie and highly processed white flour hamburger bun provides them with copious energy and almost zero fiber.
I'm sure the arch people will be here soon to say snarky things, but...
I've used Manjaro (stable) on my desktop for about 5 years and have no reason to leave. Updates are about once a month, other than security patches to browsers that for zero-days. It's still arch at it's core, but it's less upkeep.
Maybe I don't know what I'm missing, but I feel like I'm in a pretty similar situation as you.
My grandmas and I are pen pals. I text my parents.
I got on facebook to meet girls at university, not to keep up with family. I slowly got off facebook when my friends from university quit posting anything useful.
My other sort of anonymous social media stuff was on reddit and now Lemmy.
If a lack of privacy is like being nude in public, Apple is an expensive bouncer at an expensive club where you take your clothes off for free in front of people who pay apple a cover charge, because Apple promised them you have the biggest tits.
They are hemorrhaging users and replacing the missing activity with bots, but the new bots don't buy gold, so rather than show a month-over-month loss in that revenue stream in their IPO docs, they just cancelled reddit gold.
College towns aren't even changing. Republicans are sprinting towards christian nationalist fascism and the people with any exposure to people slightly different than themselves (like near college towns) aren't falling for the lies perpetuated by rightwing social media and fox news.