Stars is not shutting down, the old rewards system that Stars replaced is.

Try putting a laptop running Windows to sleep for a week and see if it has any battery left.

Because support is missing from SteamVR, existing games, or both.

None of these features are usable in SteamVR, or if they are, aren't supported by any games, like HDR.

Nature is healing.

That did the trick. Thank you so much!

I also noticed that the keyboard backlight doesn't work anymore and I no longer get GPU temps in the Freon Gnome extension.

Pop OS too.

Nobody who packages debs are updating their applications for jammy anymore. Anything I install is several versions old at this point. Just the other day I tried to compile an application that uses Autocxx, only to find that it requires C++14 headers, and the jammy repo only had up to 12 or 13. I know I can add PPAs or get things other ways, but it kind of defeats the point of a package manager if I'm constantly hunting for things outside of it.

I'm looking forward to Cosmic, but I'm curious if it will delay the 24.04 LTS release. 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth at this point.

What? I didn't want you to list a bunch of things off the top of your head. I asked for one factual thing, and you instead you provided a bunch of assumptions. If you can't provide actual facts maybe just don't state guesses like they're true?

I stopped reading when you implied that Facebook invented pancake optics. They have been used in cameras for decades. And while I agree they're the way forward in the future, saying they let more light in is factually incorrect: they only let about 10-15% of the light through. This page has a good overview of why that is and how they work.