My daughter just started school. She’s pretty stoked about it, and so are we.
For several years I was using TTRSS, but this year I moved to a Miniflux instance that I host at home. I couple it with an instance of Wallabag for saving articles for later reading. I like the experience of the Miniflux PWA app better than TTRSS.
Speaking from experience from the last five years, it’s been pretty good for me.
Nextcloud has chat capabilities. Perhaps it might be overkill for chat alone but presumably you also want some collaboration with documents.
Minecraft has been suggested here but there’s also Minete St, free/open source version. The experience isn’t exactly the same but the basics are there. Works with PC and Android. You can also run one of the computers as a host and you can do multiplayer. Absolutely no microtransactions.
Budibase.
Time heals all wounds. Make sure you don’t keep reopening them.
I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.
In this day and age they would be TikTok stars.
Start using it more frequently and favor it over GUI apps. For instance, use cd and ls over the file manager. Launch applications I using the command line. Figure out ways to do in the CLI what you used to do using GUI. Over time you should get more comfortable with the environment.
Any of the 90s horror anthology shows. Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Friday the 13th: The Series heck even X-Files and Buffy. I don’t think we’ve had a decent horror anthology show in recent years. Black Mirror is less horror than just plain meanness sometimes.