I agree. One of my favorites. Feels like a Black Mirror episode. I watched another one recently called Companion that I’d recommend to anyone who likes Ex Machina.
I’ve got 25 years of Linux usage under my belt at this point, and I’ve settled on Debian for all PCs, servers, and anything else. Stability is so much more important to me than bleeding edge software, but for those things that absolutely need the latest and greatest, there’s Backports and Flatpak.
“Next store”
I was that kid in my high school years. Teachers were usually pretty cool about it, like they already understood.