Never liked the idea of The Cloud, nor pushed updates, & this outage just proves my point...

Maybe that's why they are talking immutable systems....

I have no, (have not had),  problems online using Virgin, through their router, so would suspect it is something with your routing - other than that, I can't help.

Ever since the introduction of Chromebooks, I've seen the quality of laptops decline; so much so that I don't use one anymore, just desktop types of the SFF/USFF type, with a decent screen/monitor, & a decent mouse/keyboard.

I run Devuan/XFCE on an old 2011 HP G62, i3 processor, 4GB ram, with an 80GB HDD, without any problems...

(I'd think that you could run any desktop you like with that amount of ram.)

Maybe you don't know about these images - https://arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryP … %20Builds/

Electric cars are not 'green', they use a large amount of energy & materials to create their batteries, the cars themselves also.

What happens when one has a crash? The battery is part of the main construction, & apart from maybe bursting into flames, could also leak toxic chemicals.

We've seen what happens with electric bikes & scooters, they burst into uncontrollable fires!

There was also quite a major fire in a multi story car park somewhere, which, I think, was down to an electric car catching fire.

No, pedal power, with appropriate gearing, &/or kick scooting is the real solution to our pollution problems!

Maybe the answer lies in one of these - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=extrac … nux&ia=web

If you are using Linux, then surely just set the time yourself.......(see man date).

If you want to try different distros, get a pendrive, put Ventoy on it, then add as many distros as you want, that will fit on it.

Yes, the devs have been doing a great job on our behalf, so, I too, would like to add my gratitude for all their hard work.......& also the forum maintainers.

As far as I can recall, xenocara is a version of 'X' built & maintained in/by the OpenBSD maintainers, so there is the hope that some distros will package it for use in Linux.

(I had forgotten about xenocara because I have been installing NetBSD on some of my spare computers lately.)