My email provider shut down, so I had to migrate off of it. Every account I had allowed changing emails, although I had to contact customer support about some.

I tried to run some software on my router. It kind of works, if it fits. Storage was the limiting factor. There’s an option to expand the FS to include a USB stick, but somehow it made something overheat, and the router froze every now and then.

Amanita virosa. You die in horrible pain.

I’m running my email server on a POCO F1 ex-Android phone (running PostmarketOS now).

I wish I could get NixOS running on it, then I’d move other things also there.

I’m using VNC over an SSH tunnel. TigerVNC’s vncviewer even has the -via parameter you can use to make creating the tunnel seamless.

Most of modern music sounds horrible. Elevators and shopping malls would be better off silent than blasting this noisome garbage.

There are exceptions - there totally are modern composers creating quality stuff. It’s just not played anywhere in public places, for some reason.

Not saying my practice is the best one, but here’s what I do:

• EFI system partition is mounted on /boot
  • kernel is held here. In case of distros like NixOS etc that keep around old kernels, a small ESP might run out of space. I make mine at least 1GB.
• the rest of the disk is one luks2 volume
• inside the encrypted volume, there’s a BTRFS volume
• there’s a subvolume for /home
• and a subvolume for every distro I have (which is usually 1, but sometimes I tinker or switch)
• Kernel command line parameters specify the btrfs subvol with the right distro to boot.
• for NixOS, you need a bootloader (to choose the right kernel). Systemd-boot works well, and its configuration is easily readable. I never figured out how to work with GRUB2, its configuration is just too confusing.
• or if you like Arch, dispense with bootloaders and just use EFISTUB. You can put kernel cmdline params into EFI bootloader options with efibootmgr.

Simple yet complete. Efficient, and extensible - for example, now that everything is a subvolume, I can easily snapshot it, then create backups with rsync off the snapshot, to avoid inconsistent state between backed-up files.