Have you informed the elders of the internet about this?

I use Technitium, for that purpose. You can set up DNS records easily and it still has blocking like pi-hole. You can log DNS requests if you need to track down where certain requests are coming from or which devices are making lots of requests. It has quite a few features but I only need a couple.

Why can’t Gabe take over the US government.

Visual Studio. But VSCodium mostly makes up for it.

Curious about the specs of your machine.

Ubuntu sometime around 2008 or 2009 after there was an install disk in a PC magazine. I didn’t use it for long and went back to windows, but I experimented again with Debian a few years later and these days I daily Manjaro.