I've blown my ears to pieces with years of blasting heavy metal, so this issue doesn't really affect me, only people with actually decent hearing.

If it works it works, regardless of the language. While I'm not exactly kernel dev levels of experienced with programming, I know enough C to easily configure dwm on my machine, and from what I know of it, it's a really nice language and I think it's the best language for the kernel. I admit, however, that it lacks some modern niceties like memory-safety. Overall, I have no problem with Rust in the kernel, though I think it's more important that people learn to write safer C code, though there are limits to that of course.
One thing I would like to see is Zig being used in the kernel once it reaches 1.0 status. I think Zig would make for a better alternative to Rust in the context of the kernel, but that's just my opinion.
You're free to disagree with me, and this is just my silly opinion.

but when are we gonna see an auction with Linus Torvalds' nunchucks?

But personally I prefer Slackware. Just works nice for me.

AI is not dying yet (dammit)

Just get Cowboy Neal to take a crack at it, you'll see.

But it's not necessarily immoral. It's obviously not nice to torrent something made by a small-time individual who relies on people paying for the media to actually make ends meet.
But I consider it perfectly moral to torrent from the likes of Hollywood studios and big-wig authors who can afford to have me not financially supporting them.
After all, Hollywood is an industry built off exploiting everyone you can. All the sex scandals, all the allegations, all the drugs, laundering, and trafficking. Do you REALLY want to give your money to an industry built off such heinous principles?
Besides, big studios and streaming services are expending unconscionable amounts of effort to convince people that it's OK to not actually own your favorite movies and shows, despite the fact you'll be spending hundreds per month to watch them in the hope that they don't suddenly disappear and you have to pay for some other service.
Simple solution: torrent to your heart's content. Use a trustworthy VPN like Mullvad, or an anonymizing P2P network like I2P to cover your ass from the big bad ISP. If you don't wanna take the legal risk, buy DVDs. Your favorite stores still sell them in truckloads. Many stores like Walmart have giant bins full of discounted DVDs, many of which are "multi-pack" DVDs with multiple movies and/or shows. Buy them, take them home and rip them onto your computer. Buy a cheap NAS or even a Raspberry Pi with external storage to hold all your movies and shows. Don't have the space for all your DVDs? Resell them once you rip them. If you have the technical know-how, you can even run a Jellyfin instance and hold all your favorite movies and shows on your local network for only the cost of your electric bill. If you're daring and have additional know-how, you can even port-forward your Jellyfin instance to your public IP so you can access your movies when you're away from home (though this does pose obvious risks, like if the bad guys get ahold of your public IP). If you implement password protection on Jellyfin, you don't have much of anything to worry about.
Take the data hoarding pill today and free yourself from predatory streaming services and complete and utter brokeness!

The especially important features that sell me on a phone are:

1. No bigger than a 6-inch display (but only if it's an all-display-no-bezel phone. If it has bezels, no bigger than 5.5 inches)
2. SD card slot and headphone jack especially preferred
3. Doesn't need to be blazing fast or have an amazing camera, just needs to be able to do phone stuff, some light games, and decent enough photo and video capabilities
4. Removable battery = bonus points
5. Enticing, or at least justifiable price

Overall, the phone I'm most interested in buying is the Librem 5, as it ticks all the boxes and has the benefit of running Linux natively, which is a massive plus in my eyes. At some point I'll save up and buy one so I can finally free myself from my iPhone, which is the last thing keeping me in Apple's walled garden hellscape.

Specifically Slackware.

Here's why:

1. 1.) BlackBerry is gung-ho about security and safety
2. 2.) Google isn't anywhere near your car, so no Google-isms
3. 3.) QNX has proven to be a great option for automotive computing. After all, it's the #1 choice of the likes of Honda and Toyota

There you go. That's my little rant in support of QNX.

Maybe it's just me, but I personally love DuckDuckGo and will continue to use it until it either ceases to exist or I find some other search engine that truly knocks my socks off in the same way DuckDuckGo did to me.

A) C
B) C++
C) C#
D) Objective-C
E) HolyC
F) CowboyNeal-C