Slow mode?

prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app

Does this mean they caved in to the UK’s client-side scanning stuff after all?

where you can talk to actual helpful humans and solve a problem together if you get stuck

I’m not directly answering your question here, but I just want to say that https://slrpnk.net/c/linux@lemmy.ml here on Lemmy is exactly this and there are people using all sorts of distributions. I’ve found everyone there extremely helpful.

Permissions: check out the Concessio app (available from Flathub). Permissions are confusing for new Linux users and the app explains how they work and can generate them in numeric and symbolic formats for command line use.

I have some nostalgia about my original experience playing Minecraft but these days I would just play VoxeLibre in Luanti