The other comments do a good job explaining why you would go with X or Y distro based on your requirements. What I want to do is give you a general recommendation/piece of advice based on a feeling I get from reading your post that, that you are not excluding the possibility of tinkering with your system at some point in the future to get it less bloated and more streamlined to your use case (please absolutely correct me if I’m wrong about my interpretation).

As such, I think if your current computer has the ability to reasonably run Mint you should go with that. The reason is that it simply works most of the time without much hassle. As someone new to Linux, that’s a big part of the transition. A lot of stuff is new, so there’s no need to force extra complexity on top. You have the ability to dabble in said complexity even with Mint, but its not required, and while I am dying to recommend Arch to you having read that your PC is a bit on the less powerful side (the meme is real guys), I don’t think its a productive use of your time nor a healthy level of stress to deal with at this point of your “Linux progression”. That’s why I recommend Mint; make the transition, have the ability to slowly and eventually play with your system to an increasing degree as you get more comfortable with everything, but don’t handicap yourself from the get-go. Eventually, if you do decide to go with a distro which gives you more control in exchange for higher experience/knowledge/tinkering then you should have a solid foundation of skills to build on.

tl;dr: I recommend Mint so you get used to Linux, looking up solutions online, using the tools (commands) available to you to diagnose problems you may encounter, and if you decide its good enough for your use case - stick with it. If you want more control, think of it as a learning experience which will allow you to at some point delve into the more hands-on, complex distributions.

Vital sign monitoring system

Usb in something like my finger so i can connect to any pc and use it with my brain

Robotic limbs, mainly because its kind of a dream of mine to create affordable, diy-capable working prosthetics for people who cant afford them, especially if theyre for children/teens who seemingly double in size every half year.

What worries me is in the last sentence. If they use GitHub which is owned by microsoft itself being a US company, couldn’t the government of the US order microsoft to take down the repositories? Wouldn’t an alternative git platform be better for this?

This would make the most sense to me. Or create a separate interface for mods of communities, where they can know if someone on their block list has posted and can choose to view it.

Not sure what the MacOS one is, but i use flameshot and im happy with it

Oh, Im sorry. If I’m honest I completely forgot. Here it is:

You will need ffmpeg installed, and I did write it for Linux, so I’m not sure if there are differences for windows. Worst case you need to slightly modify it to work on windows.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
import os
import subprocess
from urllib.parse import urljoin
import sys

def download_video_chunks(base_url, output_file):
    """
    Downloads video chunks from the given base URL and merges them into a single file.

    :param base_url: The URL to the playlist or base directory containing the video chunks.
    :param output_file: The name of the output video file (e.g., "output.mp4").
    """
    try:
        # Get the playlist file (e.g., .m3u8 or .ts index file)
        print(f"Fetching playlist or video chunk URLs from: {base_url}", flush=True)
        response = requests.get(base_url, timeout=10)
        response.raise_for_status()
        
        # Parse the playlist to get the chunk URLs
        lines = response.text.splitlines()
        chunk_urls = [urljoin(base_url, line) for line in lines if line and not line.startswith("#")]

        if not chunk_urls:
            print("No video chunks found in the provided URL.", flush=True)
            return

        # Create a directory for storing chunks
        os.makedirs("video_chunks", exist_ok=True)

        # Download each chunk
        chunk_files = []
        for idx, chunk_url in enumerate(chunk_urls):
            chunk_file = os.path.join("video_chunks", f"chunk_{idx:04d}.ts")
            print(f"Downloading {chunk_url}...", flush=True)

            with requests.get(chunk_url, stream=True) as chunk_response:
                chunk_response.raise_for_status()
                with open(chunk_file, "wb") as f:
                    for chunk in chunk_response.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
                        f.write(chunk)

            chunk_files.append(chunk_file)

        # Merge the chunks into a single file using ffmpeg
        print("Merging chunks...", flush=True)
        with open("file_list.txt", "w") as f:
            for chunk_file in chunk_files:
                f.write(f"file '{chunk_file}'\n")

        subprocess.run(["ffmpeg", "-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", "file_list.txt", "-c", "copy", output_file], check=True)

        print(f"Video saved as {output_file}", flush=True)

    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"An error occurred while downloading: {e}", flush=True)
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        print(f"An error occurred while merging: {e}", flush=True)
    finally:
        # Clean up temporary files
        if os.path.exists("file_list.txt"):
            os.remove("file_list.txt")
        for chunk_file in chunk_files:
            os.remove(chunk_file)
        # if os.path.exists("video_chunks"):
            # os.rmdir("video_chunks")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    base_url = input("Enter the URL of the video playlist or base directory: ")
    output_file = input("Enter the output video file name (e.g., output.mp4): ")
    print(f"Starting download process for playlist: {base_url}", flush=True)
    download_video_chunks(base_url, output_file)

If you guys can recommend a fair and open pastebin alternative for me I will upload it there as well and edit this with the link

When a page is so bloated with crap, certain elements load much after certain others, leading me to believe the page has loaded, and to click on something jus as somthing else loads and pushes it down/to the side.

I think i wrote a short python script to do this on another site. Let me get home and see if i can help you out

Will test and edit. Ill leave my automatic upvote on, so first person to read this please downvote this comment

Edit: no no guys, stop upvoting 🤣

Edit 2: sorry OP, guess i cant test out my theory, which was that if you leave your upvote, but get downvoted once, it shows up as 0

Then people call me insane for not wanting to make it past 40

I most certainly do not know how this specific thing is xD

I will say however, you took the saying “Improvise, Adapt, Overcome” to heart haha

Thanks for the info! It would be good to be aware of the term

You’ve done what now?

Whats alt-tech?

After the situation with his former employee (i forget her name) coming out and exposing how toxic of a work environment that company is, i completely stopped watching (not that i was a regular viewer before) and do not give their vids the slightest bit of my time

Because thats what you’ve been brainwashed to think the world wants, so thats what you hear