Fair and valid.

afaik is that fixed by now - the team strongly opposes ai and stated that they want to keep it as clean as possible

If you’d be fine with having a docker container running, have a look at Signature PDF.

I’ve been using it to manipulate pdfs in similar ways you described and put it on a pi in my homenetwork (autostarting docker would also work).

They have a tester here.

(Also: french open source project)

As a former distro hopper: i just partitioned my drives with /, /home and /opt and only replaced the root partition - yes I had a lot of config files that weren’t needed, but one could use scripts to help with that.

Then some scripts to reinstall the programs need and resetup /opt and i was ready to go. For my pis am doing it with ansible.

The only reason for a sub is to use emotes everywhere and thats it. Thank god there is Vencord