I’ll accept that. People suck in general, but its the only game in town.
I’m perfectly happy to see the entire dating app thing die under a flood of slop and abuse.

You’ve missed the big one. Those aren’t people.
They are AI fronts for orgs of various size that will scam you for whatever opportunity they may discover.
You can’t fix that. Try developing something that helps people instead of another platform to use them.
You want to help people meet? Open a bar.

Oh no! Where will I find an AI girlfriend?

We need more orphans on that fire!

To be fair … Gene Wilder did write and star in a movie about bringing back the dead.

Oh, and I’m firmly on the “schtien” (not “schtine”) side of the debate.

It sounds to me like you are looking to create a “portable” linux install.
This used to be quite common when linux was much less common.
A lot of live distros, including ubuntu, support using an extra partition on the USB as the ‘drive’, so you boot to the standard live distro but your files and history are all there too.

Here’s a couple links. Google “portable linux” for more info.

A general list of portable linux distros.
https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-portable-linux-os-distros-to-install-run-from-usb/

Detailed instructions on doing this.
(I reviewed this, looks accurate, didn’t really dig through it. Their method is to create an installer USB in one port, boot from it, and then install to another USB in another port. The UEFI directions at the end look a bit sus. YMMV.)
https://coastipc.com/blog/post/creating-a-portable-linux-operating-system-on-a-usb-drive

10/10.
Would cat here again.