Thanks for the heads up. Not worth the time

I’m fine with making people email me if they want to sell derivatives of a creative work tho

It’s useful as it makes it harder for AI to use it. Derivates can still reach out to ask to be allowed to sell it

I think you misunderstood. they don’t restrict it to be petty. Allowing lots of concurrent downloads means paying for more bandwidth, or it means the site goes down.

is it in the source code, or is it just passed right to BIOS?

I used manjaro when I first started, but have had mixed success since then. Some criticisms here about shipping broken userspace (at least with their mobile OS): https://drewdevault.com/2022/08/18/PINE64-let-us-down.html

But, ubuntu is great for beginners, and i’ve always had good success with debian, although I’d point beginners to find an installer with non-free firmware until you know what’s going on