Yup, I jumped ship after that one. Previously all of my servers ran Ubuntu, now it's straight Debian or Arch in some situations.

Canonical is just so gross at every level. I saw a job posting in my area recently and it was the slimiest corpo-speak job post I've seen in.. well, a couple of weeks at least.

Ah, you mean for their "security upgrades" to LTS versions -- presented by 'apt upgrade' since at least 20.04?

Logging in triggers motd-news.service that prints whatever ad they're currently running into the journal.

because that's a great place to put it...in the logs...when we are troubleshooting an issue \s