Sorry, you might have misunderstood my point. The long processing time is “fine” if it happens at all. The issue I’m trying to bring up is that in most cases these acts end without real consequences or punishment, so any greedy newcomer repeats it.

Example of what I’d like to happen: Euro Parking contract will not be renewed, and the company will be banned for 10 years to have any contracts with TfL or any other agency.

Set precedent by law, not just a slap in the wrist, so they think twice instead of writing it off as a business expense.

OK, we have all the details, wrong doers, and corrupts. When can we expect them to be held legally accountable?

I vouch for Syncthing as well. I enabled storing in my own remote hosting provider marking it as untrusted, so my files are encrypted there.

The best way to start is reading the documentation of the project. For example, the docs of i3 (a tiling window manager) are pretty good.

You could do a live USB of Manjaro i3 to test it before installing, that specific disto even comes with basic instructions on how to use i3 written in the default wallpaper. Then start hacking away the config file, and when comfortable, replace the i3 status bar with polybar, which also has great docs and lots of examples.

Trial and error is a good way to learn, and in a live USB you don’t have risks*, except losing everything after rebooting, in which case you could try to run the OS in VirtualBox.

Luke Smith in YT has some pretty good videos explaining stuff.

*as long as you don’t do something very silly, like mounting your drive and formatting/repartitioning it, or trying to install the distro where your actual OS lives.