I have been doing versions of this setup repeatedly over years. If I was smarter I would have written this down years ago. These steps are for Ubuntu 24.04; they should work with minimal modification for other Debian-based systems.
I'm now going to peel some grapes and make good use of all the time I just saved my future self.
This is also documented in this blog post: https://www.funnymonkey.com/2024/06/basic-setup-finally/
sudo apt update