Sophocles

My favorite thing to grill is Yakitori. You can use any type of protein like steak, chicken, pork, or even tofu and put it on a stick. Veggies like asparagus, scallions, baby bok choy, etc. are also good. For a good grill marinade & dipping sauce you can use a blend of soy sauce, brown sugar, chopped scallions, and fish or oyster sauce to get some moistness and caramelization.

You should also dry-brine your meat for peak texture about 1hr before for best results. saltyourmeat.com is a good resource for exact numbers

I'd say it's probably in the middle. At the lower end you have the Adventure of the Three Gables, which the ending is garbage (see spoiler), and on the upper end you have Hound of the Baskervilles which is one of my favorite works of mystery ever. If you enjoyed Study in Sacrlet at all you should continue, but it is definitely in the middle in terms of quality.

The Canterbury Tales is a good one. It isn't a "learn about history" kind of book, but it gives plenty of insight into the common man in Medieval times, and it might fit the Medieval/prose vibe you're looking for. It's also well written and funny at times, along with being one of the most important writings of middle-english some time around 1400.

Often in dystopian books/stories, most of society is just living their average life, unaware of how bad things really are. It's usually the main character that is different, and begins to realize what's really happening; they then act as a catalyst to convince people to see what's going on (but usually only when it gets bad enough). And even then, some people will still choose to be blind. That's essentially what's happening in reality now, and why people don't really care about privacy (along with many other rights that are being eroded)

3 is totally underrated, and my favorite. Everyone hated the future shooters back then but I loved it and it still had a strong playerbase despite that.

I played BO 1, 2, and then 3 and never moved on after 3. I still boot it up occasionally and if the moons align I can find a server

I had the same way of thinking you do when I switched. I eventually landed on LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) because it just worked. Debian itself was too old to do some gaming stuff I wanted and Arch is too bleeding edge for my taste and amount of free time I have to throw at it.

LMDE gives you the rock solid experience with just enough updates to have an easy time with updates or occasional tinkering

I just started Kigdom Rush: Vengeance, the fourth game in the series. I really enjoyed 1 and 2; 3 was ok, and I'm enjoying 4 so far. I like that you can mix and match towers in this one. So far the sand worm is my favorite tower.

Overall I still like Kingdom Rush Frontiers (second one) the best, as the balancing was really well done and I absolutely loved the pirate/beach part. I also really like the necromancer tower and having an army of skeleton minions

I kinda have a niche/weird view on keyboards; I use the default aosp keyboard firewalled for no internet access and with spell check turned off. I find it annoying when it changes what I say, and if Idk how to spell something I look it up and try to remember it for next time. I have typos here and there but mostly I don't mind and I feel it makes me more deliberate in my use of language.

There are also plenty of open source and generally privacy-respecting keyboards on FDroid like Urik keyboard, so no compromise is needed imo

Heres a little list of things that matter to me personally. I'm sure others would have similar takes.

Medical Practitioners:
Privacy I'd part with: Everything, begrudgingly
Reason: it's better than dying

Job Sites:
Privacy I'd part with: gov docs, job history, financial history, identity
Reason: Having a stable income is worth giving up a little more privacy than usual. I would never give them computer usage info or biometrics, but having income to eat, have shelter, and help others is important.

Youtube:
Privacy I'd part with: usage data, contact info.
Reason: I do use frontends like invidious and grayjay to get around using the site itself, but I fear one day there won't be any working alternatives seeing how Google is cracking down so hard. Peertube is great too, but most of my favorite content creators don't use it. It's also one of my main sources of entertainment and also knowledge like cooking tutorials, building, woodworking etc.

Google Maps:
Privacy I'd part with: usage data, contact info, maybe even location if I'm traveling.
Reason: I use Organic Maps for navigation, but google maps has far superior information on local business, reviews, pictures, etc. Nothing else like it and probably never will be realistically. I use it via sandboxed browser, and to find cool places to travel to and eat.

Discord:
Privacy I'd part with: contact info (and that's it). They can pry my ID from my cold dead hands.
Reason: My friends litteraly refuse to use anything else 🤷‍♀️

Windows 10/Easy AntiCheat:
Privacy I'd part with: kernel level access for non-important device
Reason: Certain games are allergic to linux so I still keep windows around and begrudgingly allow kernel level anticheat. These specific games make me happy and are good for my mental health, which offers more than having one out of my many devices secured. I can just use other locked down devices if I need to do more important stuff. I would also never install Windows 11, that's a hard line for me.

Aside from these, I've essentially FOSSified all of my other apps/devices successfully.

TLDR: I would sacrifice elements of my privacy for:
Happiness/Mental Health
Friends/Family
Medical /not dying
A job
Knowledge/Entertainment

Lowest I can go is 20fps, anything below is too nauseating. I learned to cope because I modded Skyrim to the point of no return, and I could only get max 20fps with a decent rig and a ton of optimising. Hair physics and 4k trees definitely worth it 👍

Mushroom Truffle pasta or risotto is really good. It also pairs well with musty cheeses like aged asiago or aged goat cheese