I know many and I even speak russian fluently. And yes, many idiots do worhsip stalin. Many other idiots even worship hitler.
Hell, putler's favourite philosopher was a fascist and putler's justification for the invasion was an almost literal quote of hitler, as were many other things he stated. How does it feel to defend an actual fascist?

I bet you always blame the victims until you are one, and then suddenly it is everyone's fault but yours.

You jest. On the other hand, it'll stop those insane return-to-office mandates though, as all new development will be remote.

If you say "which should be available in both architectures aren't" then I guess you're using Ubuntu not Debian. In Debian, all release architectures had >=98% archive coverage since forever with few exceptions, never below 96%, and non-moribund -ports are also >= 90%.

Things are worse outside Debian proper: for a time I maintained an out-of-archive arch but gave up because of the monstrosity that are binNMU version numbers. That's why derivatives (including even Ubuntu) use sourceful uploads for rebuilds.

As for appImages: they deserve no words other than an exorcism formula. Same for Snap.

If you still run Windows games, then pirate instead of using DRM like Steam. They'll continue to work forever because of emulation.

The whole 32-bit Windows brouchacha comes only because of people not being told which arch to install. Microsoft had to keep 32-bit for a while because of 1. broken BIOSes in computers sold before ~2010, and 2. their software sucking balls when it comes to DLL hell. But then, if the installer shown them a popup like "you're installing 32-bit system on a machine capable of 64-bit, are you sure?", there wouldn't be a non-negligible install base anymore.

Or alternatively, they could have implemented in-place upgrades like they do with Win7->Win10->Win11. Meanwhile, I'm still running a multiply migrated and crossgraded Debian system that was initially i386 potato.

Why? The point of multiarch is precisely to allow you to upgrade some software to a different arch while keeping support for old binaries that can't be recompiled.

If not for political squabblings, we'd even have an arch for every major ISA bump or ABI break. But alas, some people are opposed to "arch proliferation" and we have to suffer stuff like that lib*t64 transition which added a lot of unnecessary work while breaking existing binaries.

What you're preaching is multilib, which had been transitioned away for a good reason.

Given that you say "game laptop" and that you can run Steam at all, that's obvious.

In the last two decades, all 32-bit machines were either embedded, or 64-bit CPUs with a broken BIOS made by idiot vendors for the lowest tiers of the market -- while laptops marketed as game are mid to high end. And I don't think those broken BIOSes were sold anymore after 2010 or so.

Meanwhile, Steam and games do use opcodes added to the ISA a lot later than that, with no fallback. They do use opcodes from newer ISAs, and fall back from those -- but they don't bother to support CPUs that old.

Case in point: recently, at my family place, invading kids blabbed about games. As all my newer machines there are either ARM or RISC-V, I had to attach a Phenom2 box (the very latest stepping, from 2010). An old game that worked before had an update, and boom! -- it kept crashing on startup. I actually looked into the crash dump and disassembled the failing code -- it used an SSE4.2 instruction. I mailed the game's maker, but they weren't amused. Understandably, as to have any playable frame rate on that machine I had to hack up a resolution not supported by the monitor's EDID.

And I hear that Microsoft dropped support for my home X86 desktop -- 2990WX, a fat 64-way Threadripper+, barely 6 years old. Fortunately I have no need for Windows at home, but it shows how much proprietary software companies care.

It is somewhat annoying, but bearable. Some of the squeals only happen when max or close to max power is requested from multiple burners at the same time, but that doesn't happen too often.
What does annoy me a lot about my specific one is that its timer beeps for a whole minute instead of a few seconds like my old one did.

Here in Germany, it is perfectly possible to find an induction stove for about 450 euros, or just a four burner hob for less than 150. They aren't high power, though, 2 kW per burner at best. The hobs with two 3.7 kW burners start at about 280. I personally simply bought two defective of the same type that had modular insides and made a working one out of them and since I have installed a ventilation grille into its base cabinet (the usual reason for defective hobs is overheating) I had no problems whatsoever with my jerry rigged one for the past 5 years since.

Maybe it is slightly better at coding, but it sucks donkey balls at everything else. It cannot even understand a circuit diagram properly. ChatGPT is so much better at this,

The former is law compliance, basically. The latter is company policy.

You are assuming the relationship that was formed was actually good. That is nowhere near as often the case as you think.

unknown texter = auto-block and report as spam. Even faster than voice.

Alas it is very difficult to fix people who do things their way despite knowing better.