Thank you, I am being careful with that.

Pop!_OS has an option to enable automatic updates.

Yes, I will exclusively use TOR for this purpose.

I could use TOR, but sadly it is unrealistic to expect everyone else to use TOR so a .onion address won’t work.

Thanks, I will look this up. It seems promising.

or/and https://www.autistici.org/

This looks really promising. Thank you!

“Auto-plague”

Copyrights and patents are literally government enforced monopolies for huge companies. Without them, there would be a lot more competition.

You are correct. There would be no copyrights or patents in a free market.

Ours is the only Solar system, because our star is named Sol. Other star systems have other names.