Some good comments and ideas there.

Let me add a few complications....

"What's the truckers channel?" In Australia there is no such thing as a 'trucker', they're 'truckies', as are 'bikers', 'bikies', and the radio channel used is 40. Even those of us who use UHF radio probably wouldn't have the faintest clue what channel is used in North America, which, I think, is still 27MHz anyway.

Questions on pronunciation can be equally as difficult. For the word 'defeat' we say diff-eet with accent on the second syllable, as opposed to dee-feet with accent on the first. Asked to type how I'd pronounce 'Devuan' I'd likely put 'dev-wahn'. Pronouncekiwi has some interesting variations.

So even for English speakers this can be hard, harder still for those even from Latin based languages and nigh on impossible for those who come from an East Asian background. Anyone tried to decipher pronunciation in Pinyin?

Colours. My business revolves around colours and not in a pink fit would I describe the Devuan scheme as 'purple'. Violet grey, perhaps.

Staying a step ahead of the bots is one thing but keeping the questions answerable is another. Good luck.

outdated packages in Ascii: http://sprunge.us/AIeF
        These packages might and might not need updates, but we should figure out if there is some necessary releases to be done regarding security.

    libsystemd packages in Ascii: http://sprunge.us/cfAW
        These packages shouldn't have to be forked at this point, since the library doesn't do anything if systemd is not there.

    banned packages in Ascii: http://sprunge.us/ALPE

I would like to see the Devuan developers offer even experimental access to alternatives to udev (such as eudev, vdev, etc) even if not necessarily working out of the box or particularly integrated.

That was pretty much the setup I had on my last laptop (lubuntu), except Audacious. I have now the same on the X1. Pulseaudio gone, ALSA in. As you said, it did not help with the buttons though. I:ll dig into this at a later time. The way it is now is good enough.

The delay in GNUinos made me opt for Hyperbola GNU / Linux-Libre

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Thank you.