second question, aborting an active download not shutting the terminal down: neither ctrl+z nor ctrl+q work and opening htop to kill the process seems overkill. What I now do is to simply shut the active tab, but there must be a faster way.

Ctrl+C.

don’t be afraid of shit you can’t control

But you can reduce the amounts of artificial sweeteners from your diet though, right? Your diet is one of the few things in life that you actually can control for the most part.