I was using Quad9 for quite some time, but I had consistent problems with the DNS sometimes not working.

In my local network I switched to pihole with unbound as the resolver. Though this does require a bit more setup. I have unbound setup to serve expired records from the cache & prefetch comment queries, this helps with most of the delay.

On my phone I use dnsforge.de when I am not at home for example, and haven’t had any problems with unresponsive DNS so far.

I can also recommend EndeavorOS, mostly seamless install even with a Nvidia Optimus GPU (well that one took a bit of research on what to install exactly, not that it’s easier on other distros)

It is. In Germany it’s pretty common to have little plastic Keychains or coins to use instead of money.

No no, I’m sure my box of IDE Hard Drives & CD Burners will be of use to me at some point…

In fact Linux is the superior version of Factorio, since you get to have asynchronous saves that don’t pause the game

Ich habe unbound als eigenen Rekursiven Revolver angebunden. Bis jetzt noch keine Performance Probleme gehabt, zumindest nicht mehr als mit anderen DNSSEC Resolvern.

You can do the same on Windows (mount ssh shares), there is an Fuse like project for Windows: WinFsp.