> The idea that no one is making 80s or 90s style music is absurd

You can see new releases almost daily on e.g. NewRetroWave[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/newretrowave

It really is a tragedy how everything is being monoculturized to linux.

> solid ZFS w/excellent networking NAS device.

illumos distros might be a good alternative. I have OmniOS[0] as a filer and SmartOS[1] running hypervisor duties on zones and bhyve.

[0] https://omnios.org [1] https://docs.smartos.org

Gotta get back in time. The Symbian S60/S80 platform will rise again!

> vibe coded

s/vibe/slop/;

Honestly “vibe coded” is already so derogatory in my eyes that I didn’t even consider another term

> Later on i once went to Helsinki to watch with my own eyes what people can program in a restriction of 4 to 64 kilobytes.

The Demoscene will save us all

> works great with your Linux distro of choice.

...or you could go with FreeBSD. There's even a brand new release that just came out!

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/

And there's also Triton[0] and vanilla SmartOS[1] it's based on

[0] https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/triton

[1] https://docs.smartos.org/

And as linux is becoming more and more a corpo controlled monoculture, the time has never been better to switch to *BSD and illumos where true freedom awaits.

You mean the *NIXes that via their license hold dev freedom (and corporate freedom without the forced source publication) over user freedom (the purpose of the GPL)?