I miss when people made web browsers without appeasing advertisers. Remember when mozilla introduced the popup blocker and netscape actually incorporated that into their mainstream product? You never see stuff like that anymore because advertisers control everything on the internet now.

Spin down when not in use is normally default behaviour for most systems already, you don’t need to do anything.

Lmfao, verify your mastodon account with a credit card… Who falls for this stuff?

I run an 8 disk 90tb BTRFS RAID0 and its been going strong for over a year. I hesitate to actually encourage anyone to live this dangerously but its mainly a media server and if i needed to i could restore any lost data from usenet or torrents using my arr stack which is on a different drive. If you can handle the risk its a nice speed boost.

Typically the project will offer its own deb repos and packages along with setup instructions such as steam or docker

In theory you can add LMDE or other debian based distros repos to your sources but it will most likely lead to things breaking. If you cant find instructions specific to debian then you are better off either compiling from source or using snap, appimage or whatever pre-compiled option is offered officially.