This cannot work since both double and tripple As has the same voltage, and thus does not have a difference in light output. What we’d instead be looking at here is the battery/ies being drained faster the fewer there are of them. But yeah having it work no matter the amount of batteries installed is a neat idea

I find dev.to nice

I’d start by disabling the plugins one by one or a couple at a time to see if any of them might be the culprit

Sounds like he might be more senior in age than in skill

If you’re arch-curious but want something more opinionated and out-of-the-box, you could have a look at manjaro. It gets much shit thrown its way because its both try-hard (being arch based) and simultaneously “just works”, but that’s mostly memes