De-google, anyone?

Same as the past 10 or so years, from what I can tell.

The majority of posts on Reddit are also like that. Perhaps a curse of a feed-oriented forum (or whatever this type of social media is called)

I'd suggest changing the link permission to "anyone can comment" instead, as any ill-intended individual can grief the file as it is now. Then those who moderate the file can approve or deny new entries.

From what I understand, both are caused by overload, either sensory, psychological, and so on, and that result in the person having a sudden shift in their behaviors, but with the capacity of understanding one's surroundings and to act rationally getting greatly diminished. With meltdowns, the person can display a sudden shift to a more aggressive and/or anxious behavior, maybe similar to a tantrum externally, but with the mind having gone blank. Meanwhile, shutdowns make the person go far more quiet, or unresponsive altogether.

tl;dr/saved you a click: most of what is said in the article is pure conjecture and fluff to hide they barely know anything

One thing I suggest is:
You're trying to get something working but it isn't going anywhere? Try again later.

First, because of the obvious calming down, since stress can affect the person's capacity to solve problems.
Second, I've noticed how many things on Linux have some degree of similarity and/or relation to one another. So trying other things in the meantime can give you the needed insight for solving a previous problem.

Maybe you'd want first to seek pertinent authorities in your school, seek a psychiatrist and/or even fill a report on bullying.

Having an option to toggle, top and down, would be nice, me thinks.

There's an extension made by Mozilla themselves, Multi-Account Containers, which could be useful for your needs:
https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers

I guess you could say it works as a "profile-lite" feature.

First, I'd suggest flashing a community system ROM. OEM systems are both very bloated, and stop being supported much earlier than community ones, so they're not ideal unless you need to use it with some banking app or the sort. And if you don't need Google's services (de-Google, anyone?), I strongly recommend going for a vanilla system instead of a Gapps one.

Now, as stated in MargotRobbie's comment, one good use is as a media player. If you can sideload stuff like VLC and Librera Reader, you should be covered.

You can also use it for some lighter gaming, if that's your thing, as there's plenty of emulators, wrappers and engine implementations for Android.

You can also use it for running servers, if you do this sort of stuff.

And if you like to test around with softwares, a spare Android device is pretty good to have.

I'd recommend Mint, because, from my experience, it's pretty stable, UX is designed so terminal usage can be kept to a minimum (but you can still prioritize it if you want), support from programs is overall good, and it ditches snap. But worth noting that, if you need cutting edge features, Mint is not for you, as it seems to be the new Debian, where updates are traded off for stability.

I'm no gamedev, but as a consumer, my impression is that this itch happens because of where the person asked usually looks to.

The way I see it, games, much like all other segments of entertainment, can be divided into big productions and smaller productions.

Those productions are usually accompanied by proportionally big or small companies.

From what I can observe, bigger companies get where they are because they made something no one expected but that worked great. But then, a paradox forms, they get so big that perhaps they're too afraid too fail. After all, the higher you get, the higher you fall. And so, in fear of failing, instead of daring, and thus being innovative, they stick to the same formula that got them where they are, over and over, trying to keep momentum. This lack of innovation, added with the tactic of selling hype instead of actual contents, feels extremely wearing.

Meanwhile, the smaller companies don't have this leash that is being too big and needing to keep momentum, meaning they have more room to dare being different.

Surely, there are many indie projects that leave to be desired, but the impression I get is that the amount of indie games that get good reception, as well as how good this reception is, usually end up being of a much higher order than those shiny AAA games that are made to sell consoles.

And with those points in mind, I go back to the first phrase of those considerations of mine by pondering if perhaps the people you asked to aren't biased by seeing/consuming too much of those games whose companies are trying to maintain the status quo.

Now, what was my favorite console generation, you ask? None. But I do have one console that I love far more than the others, the PlayStation Vita.

"How heinous!" / "This console has no exclusives!" / "It launched dead!"

This is no joke and I'll explain why.

Starting with the SNES up until recently, I was always 1~2 generations behind everyone else, so I could see very well how the landscape for gaming on a given console was after the dust settled in.

The SNES was nice but I didn't play much of it at the time. The PS2 had great and unique games a la carte (I'm still finding good games to this day tbh). The PS3 started feeling same-y, with too much glitter and too little contents in most games I could find. And the Vita's catalogue is a salad due to Sony supporting it for some time (long enough to have some bigger IPs in it), indie developers supporting it long after Sony dropped support (even modding in the Vita is mostly just "made a wrapper to run x or y game on the console"), and it supporting by design the PSP and, by extension, the PS1, made it so games could be picked at random without any specific luring you more than the others. And upon picking many games at random, this degradation I described before became more and more palpable.

The Vita is my favorite console because it has no consistency in its catalogue. And this lack of consistency lets me find just so much stuff that is genuinely good. To me, a device blessed by its curse.

So yeah, I think the entertainment industry feels stale because the bigger projects, the ones that are usually seem first, are stale, while the smaller projects can still thrive. But as they say, the first impression is a lasting impression, so if what the person sees first are games that staling in quality, their views on gaming overall may be tainted.

Given I avoid the Play Store as much as possible (don't like it; it's just a killswitch/rental service, at the end of the day), I sought readers distributed as APKs, and the best one I found (which is also FOSS) is Librera Reader, which also has pre-built APKs on F-Droid and Github:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/

https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader/releases/latest

If you like reading books, comics, etc, maybe Librera Reader?

Dunno how it is on Google Play, but it's available FOSS and DRM free outside of it:
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/

Vejo vários relatos de que a chefia do Reddit está manipulando artificialmente o site como forma de controle de danos, para o estrago não parecer tão grande. Dado isso, adicionado também ao negacionismo que frequentemente vejo ao sugerir usar serviços diferentes, me faz pensar que quem diz que o protesto não funcionou ou são defensores extremamente vocais e não dispostos a mudar de opinião, ou são atores pagos do Reddit.

Além do mais, a impressão que tenho é que, sendo brasileiros, temos uma necessidade cultural de falar de nosso país. Logo, se a comunidade ainda está parada, talvez seja apenas porque ainda não é amplamente conhecido pelo público, e valendo ressaltar também que até o Reddit começou com pouca adoção.

E, olhando o Fediverse como um todo, já tem muito conteúdo disponível, ainda que aparentemente poucos em português. E junto com a chefia do Reddit aparentemente ainda estar minando de todas as formas possíveis a confiança que seus usuários mais fisiológicos têm, imagino que o Fediverse como um todo vai pegar no tranco "much sooner than later", e por extensão, comunidades individuais de escopo maior, como aqui, verão cada vez mais fluxo.

One problem is that you don't know who's actually hoarding your data and for what purpose.

Most Final Fantasy entries are either independent of each other, or very loosely connected, even more so on the mainline. Only straight up sequels, prequels and spin offs would potentially require having played earlier titles.

They surely lift me up.

I agree it is an uphill battle, but it must start somewhere. Else, it only gets worse, and then movements against such abuses will get easily crushed. As I like to say, "the hardest part of a journey is the first step", but also "the future belongs to those who prepare now".