Part of why it’s this way is the expense of getting anything approved! I blame our bureaucracy as much as I blame those types

Maybe not the mainstream news_papers_ of today, but likely much of the news

I like to edit configs, which can break apt, and build projects from source, which requires bleeding-edge versions of many libraries that most distros don’t ship with, which also tends to break apt when I manually install them.

Arch’s pacman gracefully handled modified configs and the Arch repos ship very new packages, so I don’t find myself fighting the OS.

For me it’s been Arch for the last several years. It’s the only distro that can deal with the weird things I do while still working well for daily use.

No, then you fix the code to work with your current system libraries and upstream the patch and version bump. This happens less on Arch, BTW ;-)

Not so much nowadays, but we remember!

This is typically for insurance. Some don’t insure against pet damage, but even a well-qualified tenant’s pet can cause damage that the tenant themselves would be unlikely to, and this can easily exceed the deposit. This type of liquid damage is typically not covered by rental property insurance and can be very stubborn (think, odor).