You’re just a straight shooter, with upper management written all over you.

I often go through this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks

You can quickly remove all unused packages with this command: (from the article above)

pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns -

My arch install is many years old, I don’t feel the need to re-install.

FYI you could always make things larger. Just use a number less than 1 in the scaling settings (I use 0.6 on my 4k tv).

This smells of bullshit.

I just looked up the initial release, it was in August 2001. I don’t remember the first time I used it, but it was probably 20 years ago. Still remains my favourite for the reasons you mentioned.

Yes and no. I probably am a bit better off than my parents, but they raised 4 kids and I raised none. My Mom was mostly stay at home (went back to work after all us kids moved out). My spouse has a good career, which is an added bonus.

I think you need to set the execute bit on your service file.

sudo chmod +x <your service file>