Yeah, I describe OpenBSD as very easy... for those already who are already quite familiar with Unix.

Very nice for setting up quick servers.

Getting more into the BSDs.

I have OpenBSD as a desktop on a laptop I have and it's great.

Also wanting to get back into retrocomputing.

Fair enough. A lot of us are something along the lines of androids, and that's probably more an oversimplification of the species that's the primary demographic of the system.

We can probably fairly easily modify this/make our own graphics to represent us at the least. Might have to get the resident graphic designers in our plural collective onto this.

The artist likes foxes.

Not my instance (I'm posting from PieFed lol), but I noticed that lemmy.blahaj.zone has five UIs, including mlmym, set up.

One of us in the plural collective running this account is admittedly interested in modifying the fox in the notice to her specific species of fox for our notice. :3

I can second AirVPN. I've never had an issue with it, at least one that wasn't ultimately user error.

Wow! I guess AI was worth all that water!

...seriously, what's the point of making it an image aside from posting a (probably unpaid!) ad on Twitter?

Makes sense to me. As I said, I'd find this a mild annoyance (at worst even!) if this weren't a Linux distribution. Could (theoretically anyways) be fine enough for OP though.

The policy doesn't seem to be a full ban on AI within the distribution's infrastructure, permitting some usage such as for translation and for research.

For anything else, this would be a mild annoyance to me.

For a Linux distribution, not fully banning AI is a dealbreaker for me due to the direction that the Linux kernel is going. Thus the resistance that a Linux distribution does against AI must be stronger for me to consider it, especially when there are other Unix-like OSes that have less AI-generated code due to not using the Linux kernel.

This line of thinking also helps me narrow down Linux distributions to recommend.

Regrettably, I don't think there's a good middle ground distribution that's anti-AI. It's either very technical distributions like Chimera and Gentoo or opinionated distributions geared towards newcomers like elementary OS or more specialized distributions like Nura (formerly postmarketOS) that are explicitly anti-AI.

I think your best bet would be to go with elementary OS, honestly. It uses its own DE, Pantheon, rather than KDE, but I think it's easily your least worst option. I've never used it extensively myself, however.

Of course, I also am obligated to mention that the Linux kernel is extremely pro-AI. However, an anti-AI Linux distribution is leagues better than using, say, Windows when it comes to AI.

That being said, here's a list of distributions known to be affected by AI as well as those that are anti-AI.

Went to an auction and got a cash register for rather cheap. Now I can run a store from home as I have a scanner, thermal printer, and a credit card terminal as well!

Don't know if I want to, but I at least have everything now lmao