That’s my take too. I use DoH and to work around this I created a hosts file with some archive sites.

High chances you’re using cloudflare dns. Google for cloudflare archive.is to find out more.

Without a doubt, for me it’s Re-animator. This movie also introduced me to HP Lovecraft.

MadAI’s disease.

I guess we didn’t learn when we did it with cows.

Have you considered installing Proxmox? That way you can then test as many distros as possible and even play a bit with containers. I configured it recently and I’m having a lot of fun being able to take snapshots and then doing crazy things with an easy way to recover from my failed experiments.