Yes. They disallow controlling a ‘cloud’ device with another network server.

Same. Sometimes it’s the same shoe at a discount, other times kids shoes are lower quality.

Or if you’re into it, they can light up with each step

“Just”
Thanks I’m cured

Not usually

Honestly that’s worse for me if you don’t mention the subject.

‘im having issues with x are you free to discuss possible solutions’ is fine, but I hate the open ended ‘are you busy’ messages

Whether or not I’m busy depends on what you’re asking me to talk about.

It’s not hard on Debian

https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS