New ASUS firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older router and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

Like that?

But the rules of Portal is that the portals themselves break when moved by any substantial extent anyways

Except when the rules don’t apply

‘Normal’ Mint is still based on Ubuntu, but there is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition), which is Debian based.

Obviously, it was a joke about XKCD’s Frankenstein: https://xkcd.com/1589/

You can still donate to those too. It’s good to support the dev(s) of any app you like, FOSS or not.

I thought Adnauseam was only to screw over the tracking by clicking every ad, as clicking ads generates revenue for the site?

I’m not sure what kind of features Edge has for PDFs, but FireFox has recently gotten an update to it’s PDF editor so you can edit them in FireFox. Might be worth checking out if that is truly the only reason.