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I use primarily debs but if your using Ubuntu it will include Ubuntu supported snaps. This is all from the distro supplied repos generally.
Installing random stuff not distro support contains a lot of addition risks such as potentially more bugs and malware.
I think the only 3rd party program I have installed is an AppImage of Joplin. I found the snap buggy.
I am not big fan of snaps or flatpacks as I had issues with both. One rarely needs them on Debian based distros anyway.
Just thinking what possibilities. Some thoughts.
We always use Ubuntu LTS and do not install or upgrade a release until is out for 6 to 9 months. For Debian we use stable.
Make certain your install media is good and also the computer storge media.
Keep the system updates current.
Use packages installed from the standard repo and supported by the security team.
Not sure what else.
Just FYI. My family has used linux for 25 years on many systems and we do not have stability issues. We use mostly Ubuntu or Debian.
Have no idea why your having issues. Could distro or hardware related. Also are you sure your storage media is good.
Yes. I support one youtuber that way. They put extended content there and stuff youtube would sensor. Do not actually use it that much but it is a nice thank you one gets for supporting them.
You can share a name or handle now but I think you still need the phone number otherwise though you no longer have to share it.
The big upside of signal is that it is better then SMS, and has more adoption then any of the other reasonable options. Adoption is still not enough to make it that useful when compared with Messenger and SMS and even with this addressbook thing your complaining about trying to drive it.
Big downsides abound too including needing a phone number, and being tied to a phone.
2 is probably wrong. Molly exists. Trademark cannot be used to prevent other implementations, just the use of the name or other dress. What may not be open is the server side code and federation is not supported.
That assumes you can tell and that the best people and processes are flawless which is not true by a wide margin.
This assumes all human therapists are ethical and never make mistakes, and that all of their offices, notes and data syatems are secure too. All security is porous.
Peertube is the distributed Fediverse platform. The issue of course is ability to monetize and discoverability, both huge issues for creators. No creators, no content.
Reguarding apps, you said typewriter, movies, music, games. Office suite look at LibreOffice. Movies and music if it is online just Firefox or any other browser you choose. Firefox is good at working with PDFs too. Any distro should come with a document viewer, photoviewer, video player, and music player. You can choose from tons of other or more advanced tools. Debian for example comes with over 60K packges and Ubuntu and Mint are similar. There are also 3rd party sources too. Flathub or Snapcraft for example if you want something not in the repos.
If you go with a Debian based distro with a lot of apps in the repos, you probably my not need these other app souces, but some people like smaller distros, something special just not in the repos, or a newer or different version of app. For example I use Joplin which is a notes app that is not in the Debian repos.
For apps finding an app name and starting links https://alternativeto.net is your friend. For distros, https://distrowatch.com is your friend. Strongly favor a distro in the top 10 on distro watch unless you have some special need.
Edit: You will notice that the top 10 are all Debian, Arch, Fedora, or SUSE based in that general order of more to less popularity. Linux distros tend to be based on these base distributions. For example Mint is based on Debian and so is Ubuntu.
I personally prefer Debian based distros just because of the number of apps in the software repo. Probably consider Ubuntu or Mint in your case. My wife and I have used Linux pretty exclusively for over 20 years. Ease of use is not that much of an issue once your setup. My wife and her dad are not technical and they have few issues.
Installing, and fixing issues is more technical but it is for Windows too especially if you do not get it preinstalled. You presumably have some stratagy for Windows support. Linux same, have a stratgey for it.
Just compare the number of possibilities. Number of words to the 4th power to 94 to the 15th power. Your corpus would have to be 25 million words. In contrast, there are about 800K words in the english language and about 1000 commonly used words.
This is a great example of how impossible it is not write down usernmes and passwords and how infeasible forcing changes is.
The other thing people do not talk about enough is user names. They should be somewhat random too and not reused. Forcing people to use their email address is particularly stupid but very common.
The missleading thing about passphrases is that anything a human can remember is low entropy. That it has 20 charachers says nothing about how random.
Edit: I also wonder how much randomness is really needed. Properly salted and hashed passwords shoud not need that much randomness. Lot of this is about users just choosing bad passwords, reusing, and IT not properly salting and hashingon their end.
Lot of security is theater. IT doing a CYA thing.
I wonder how much of this stems from two stupid IT policies. For decades users have been told to not write down passwords and to change them regularly. The result of this policy is to use a small number of password variations that one reuses. Then IT complaims about it.
The better plan has always been to use long random passwords that you never reuse and write them down by some method like a password manger and only change them rarely for example when they may be compromised,
The two downsides of a custom domain are:
Only as private as the least private use of the domain. No crowd to mix with.
Delivery through SPAM filters of other providers more troublesome. Delivery to AOL/Yahoo, and one of the AT&T managed mail domains has been the biggest issues for me. GMail delivery seems fine.
Do get a common mainstream suffix not the cheapest. Some filters may tend to filter some TLDs.
Edit: By the way, I have my own domain and the email for it is hosted at a hosting provider. I recommend it but the above are the downsides.
You can just setup an extender where you need it. That is what I have. No real need for mesh unless your place is really big.
Look at FairPhone. I got a Pixel 8a recently and flashed Graphene and I think this is the best tradeoff but I understand wanting jack etc, as I would have liked too.
In hind site for me, turns out Blutooth is great as it works well with my OTC hearing aids and my Bluetooth headphones too. I liked the hearing aide support as it gives me proper calibrated sound where generic stuff will not.