If it works, is safe, and is maintainable, there’s no shame in it. My unraid box has some unorthodox drive mounting too.

Nice read. No matter how much lightweight software you use, the hardware expectations of the modern web seem to keep increasing.

I read the article and was disappointed not to see metrics on just how rare our configuration is. It looks like they basically said “there are 4 layouts, ours is least common”

Not sure what constitutes a lot, but definitely had AUR software. Generally only for things that were not otherwise available

I know it’s not the same (some would argue worse), but I ran manjaro for a long time and just didn’t have these sorts of issues. Maybe I didn’t update enough, or I updated too frequently, or ?

So much this. I suspect there’s an issue around opt out making the platforms less appealing to advertisers. The people with disposable income to spend opting out of ads, might be exactly the ones advertisers want to reach.