In a strange way reading /r/conservative since the mods took a holiday has been kind of fun. I’ve always checked that subreddit, even though I hated reading it most of the time, I always thought it important to see what the other side has to say. Some of their memes today have been funny, even for a lefty and in some way it’s like a beautiful and surprising reddit farewell gift from the place I least suspected.

Debian and Arch Linux. The Yin and Yang of Linux distros. Debian daily, Arch for occasional gaming

Look into HAProxy. It will load balance traffic between servers based on your preference, and can be configured to detect when 1 server is down, thus keeping your service active when 1 server goes down.

Didn’t down vote but this issue was voted on and the outcome was to make many non-free-firmware available in the default installer starting with Debian 12. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2023/20230219

Agreed, maybe just establish a maintenance cycle that works for you and only update then. Otherwise you might use arch-audit to check for security issues in your packages and only upgrade when a package you have has a known vulnerability.