pop os or fedora

You can enable them right now by setting sidebar.verticalTabs = true in about:config

Why can’t humanity seem to learn that storing all of our knowledge and cultural artifacts in just one place with no backup is a BAD IDEA? Don’t let the library of Alexandria burn again!

Nope

I watch a new anime and the op/ed is a banger

At what point when accumulating grains of sand do they become a heap?

There is no rule. It just is whatever it is.

what’s wrong with man pages?

policy control

It’s not exactly the same, but you could use puppet to enforce configuration

Software Center with software allow lists

You can setup a custom repository with only approved software and then set that as the only one that the system is configured to retrieve packages from. This can also be controlled via puppet.

controlled OS updates

Same as the previous point. Upgrades are installed from the repos.

zscaler

I don’t know what that is/does, and their website isn’t helping.

software detection tool to detect what’s been installed and determine if any unallowed software is present

I’m pretty sure carbon black app control has a linux version.

antivirus

There are a number of different antivirus solutions for linux. A quick search will give you a bunch of lists. I’m not personally familiar with any of the options, but I don’t imagine it will be difficult to find one that will work for your use case.

Never have, never will.

No. There’s plenty of common examples of that suffix being used in a non-sexual non-negative context. For example: someone who enjoys reading books is called a bibliophile, there’s also the youtube channels Computerphile and Numberphile.

Have you added these lines to /etc/bluetooth/main.conf under [General]? This stack exchange answer says it’s required:

Privacy = device
JustWorksRepairing = always
Class = 0x000100
FastConnectable = true