Im not up to speed on my acronym's, what are these?

As long as there are those who maintain non systemd FOSS linux distros, then hopefully we wont have to put up with non FOSS software and attitudes.

Are you trying to restrict other users from connecting to ssids outside the defined list of ssid's?
If you use interfaces/ifupdown, I think wpa_supplicant should be able to do this, you just need to define the ssid's in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as the root user and restrict access to this file and /etc/network/interfaces

Im no coder but if it is something an intermediate linux user can accomplish or help with I would be willing to give it a go? What are the requirements/technical boundaries?

Its called planned obsolescence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Are you sure they are viruses? What were the names of the viruses and can you share what web sites you think might have given you viruses or are these websites NSFW?

In any case, as a matter of privacy and security i use the arkenfox user.js and fiddle with a user-overrides.js config.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

as stargate mentions, use ublock-origin and tick as many filter lists boxes that apply and also use filter lists from filterlists.com.

The filter lists from anti-corp (no-google in filterlists.com) are great if you want to try to completely block google, just saying.

https://github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google

Upgrade from daedalus to ceres went fine after installing usrmerge first. Im not sure what i was thinking, i thought maybe apt might throw a warning to install usrmerge first before upgrading, but probably too soon as stable to unstable not covered. Sorry for the noise.

Okay so i removed the filesystem and started again, this time installing usrmerge first. I get this error now??
Note that the system is stable(daedalus) no upgrade has occurred yet.

FATAL ERROR:
Both /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 exist.

You can try correcting the errors reported and running again
/usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge until it will complete without errors.
Do not install or update other Debian packages until the program
has been run successfully.

E: usrmerge failed.
dpkg: error processing package usrmerge (--configure):
 installed usrmerge package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 usrmerge

So usrmerge needs to be installed first before a big upgrade like this? Noted.

For example?

Ive noticed this too, is it the red screen saying its going to format the usb drive? I think its just a warning and partman will only make changes you indicate/allow and not just overwrite the usb drive without permission.

As quoted from steve_v above this has worked for me up until recently, I found out that --bind flag is no longer workin using daemon, can you confirm steve or anyone else? So i took that out of the commands and now it is working. Im on deadalus stable.

Also can anyone suggest a better way to make pipewire/pulse whatever use the audio sink that i want as default? Currently im just using a command to make the bluetooth speaker default sink as follows in xfce4. Im too used to alsa and cant figure this new pipewire stuff out, but i need to so i can make the new bluetooth speaker work.

sleep 10s && pactl set-default-sink "bluez_output.10_94_UE_EC_C0_5E.1"

Otherwise pipewire/pulse automatically sets the hdmi alsa sink from the monitor and i cant seem to get pactl to keep my setting over reboots or logouts.

How familiar are you with the command line and a terminal and sudo or su?

EDIT: before trying the below, may we see the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/midori.list ?
As was said, midori is not in the debian repositories, but if you want to keep midori the midori.list needs looking at and fixing first.

<<< only try below commands if all else fails  >>>

What you should do in a terminal is the following what aluma describes in point 1.

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/midori.list 

then in the terminal again do this

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade 

< answer Y for yes to all.

Then go back into synaptic and see if it is working again.