Bilbo

Most admins will type sudoe<tab> , which is shorter

You could boot on an USB, mount the filesystem and change the permissions. But if the dude changed a whole lot of permissions, reinstalling might be the smart thing to do…

Klipper on KDE offers a clipboard history. Don’t know about other DEs.

Not a great timing to move to something RHEL-based!

If I may ask, why not Debian? You’re already familiar with 99% of the distribution, as it’s the base for Ubuntu.

Use Peertube if one of your concern is to promote a world where YouTube is not the only way for a creator to host videos. It shows them (and sponsors) that the efforts to maintain another platform is viable. Resources are not the main issue for Peertube, as it uses WebTorrent to distribute a video using peer-to-peer.

If you fear to miss something in the YouTube comments (really?), use Invidious.