Not OP, but the dissolution of the ussr was entirely undemocratic. They also violated the constitution, which did have provisions for leaving, in order to do so.

Vaporwave is good in addition to what everyone else has said!

This suggestion is praxis but I'm not going to lie, I just wrote a mouse jiggler program using robotjs and use that.

During working hours obviously. Now I'm watching means morning news instead of working.

Manjaro has been surprisingly easy for me, but I'm not new to Linux so take that into account.

Socialism isn't shared poverty; who would complain about you buying that laptop?