INSTALL GENTOO

Mid twenties here, same situation. My bank closed my accounts lol

This mindset isn’t really conducive to meeting your needs.

Marx and Engels predicted that economies would become dominated by rentiers

There are was to compile your programs outside of your machine.

It’s not as bad as people make it out to be honestly. Word processors and browsers suck because of libraries iirc, that’s about it tho

Not sure if it qualifies for being a “good” use of Vaseline, but you can make emergency candles with it.