til that very few ubuntu mirrors have arm64 packages and also that the ubuntu mirror list does not have an easy way of filtering mirrors by architecture

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@codl ubuntu doesn't do the debian thing where it dynamically selects the fastest available mirror?

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@noiob @codl iirc it points to archive.ubuntu.com by default and that's a CDN that points to the fastest mirror

@noiob idk maybe there is an automatic mirror redirector somewhere but i dont know where it is and it's not listed on the big list of mirrors

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