Looks like this weekend i'm not going to do anything about that "postgres and *sqlalchemy*"-situation.
So maybe i'll try to a) remove all xfce-related packages and replace thwm with lxde-related packages b) replace elogind if possible.
Recently noticed this: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5909 .

Although better to make some backups before a) and b) .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGG0hQ5QKVU Karl Sanders - No Creature More Deserving of Cataclysmic Annihilation

I'm sure that there was an episode of House which included that "my finger hurts"-joke.

I was under the impression that devuan desktop install iso is for those who want desktop environment working ASAP.
And netinstall is more likely for those who want a minimal system. So is there any real harm done if avahi and some other packages are made optional in netinstall?

Haven't touched Arch yet. Would like to figure out first how to make guix usable.

By "removal of polkit-related packages" i meant:

apt-get remove --purge pol*;apt autoremove

rather not touch "libpolkit*" -packages since year 2022 when i found out that some of them are actually necessary if you want to log in to X.

Recently noticed this:https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6571 . Started to think: could removal of polkit-related packages have something to do with my "freezing problem" ?

And then there's that idea:replace xfce with lxde.

But on the other hand, i would like to get some Docker-related stuff done first before i cause a Fukushima-Chernobyl-level catastrophe. I think there's a related comic in xkcd.com but right now i'm too lazy to remember the exact link. Maybe sharks were mentioned, maybe not.

Edit. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/349:_Success

Maybe "What i was expecting" was a over-statement. The "downward slope" looked like what i have seen in electronics books and from a real oscilloscope once. But that "rising edge" was weird. Looked more like sawtooth wave. Maybe a rounding error or a bug?
Should send some email to the makers of ktechlab.

Got tired of that ngspice manual...

Tried that "efi-checkbox" rolfie mentioned. After that the installation procedure refused to continue. At first the netinstall's installation program started but forze after some time. Next time i didn't get past the efi shell.
So efi is to be avoided, at least with vmachines.

And, with efi disabled in a vm, i couldn't make an efi partition with netinstall's partition tool. But on the other hand there is no real need for that.

Sometimes i'm also troubled by dependencies. Though usually dependencies that trouble me have something to do with Docker, pypi or node.
For example, do i really need to have 600 mb container just to run a simple "hello world"-app with Flask ? Or download 100 Python packages for that? And can i trust that the packages i download today even work? And without side-effects?

Ngspice seems to take this "analogic thing" seriously. Manual has abt 700 pages and includes, for example, how temperatire effects the currents of pn-junction.
But on the other hand, that software has a steep learning curve.

Maybe moving on to Alpine becomes a good idea. I heard that in that distro there is not so much bloat or unnecessary dependencies.
But i have been using Debian-ish distros almost 20 years. It is not easy to walk away from that.

Not sure if this helps, but: have you tried dpkg -reconfigure ?