Consider that what we read online as news is becoming close to 50% generated or created by bots. Dipping in now and then, but mostly avoiding doesn't seem an unreasonable approach, and breaks the dopamine machine.
I installed mint on my second PC, and it's great. I feel like migrating my main, but I'm not sure it would go smoothly. I've had a lot of issues with my four months old Ubuntu install, lately the keyboard is nonfunctional at the login screen about half the time. Snaps are another reason making me want to leave it behind.
There's an old book called "the secret life of plants"... An interesting part explains how after a human, who had never entered a particular greenhouse before, smashed a plant to bits, and an electric response in the survivors spiked only when that particular human returned to the greenhouse.
Queen, news of the world tour, opening with "we will rock you". Second is ELO and Kansas with a deadly laser light show. Nothing else has come close. I am old.
What's ironic is that nearly half the US has lead pipes serving their water, and every single source is contaminated with multiple "forever chemicals".