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Started testing Linux OS around 2003. Never really commited, until late 2020, where I removed Windows and switch to Arch Linux full-time.

Now, after 4 years of Arch, I switched to Fedora Workstation. I kinda miss the Arch repos and the AUR, but Fedora is doing a lot of work that I would have had to do myself on Arch.

Well, you gotta sacrifice something to gain something. Equivalent exchange and stuff.

Seeing this CD reminded me of Knoppix. I tested that in school when I was 16 or 17.

Your picture really makes me feel old. Kernel 2.0? KDE 1.0? GIMP 1? Feels so far away, it must have been a different life.

Just a misunderstanding, then. I did not intend to talk down on a hosting provider I don't even know. Instead, I prioritize hetzner because I'm familiar with them and they're based in europe.

I didn't intend to be elitist about anything and I actually fail to see the elitism by saying "that hoster is not about providing cheap storage"? Maybe there's something in the english language I do not pickup on?

Yeah, hetzner's more about having your own servers than providing cheap storage.

Proton also seems to be interesting. Privacy by default and being swiss based definitely are plus points.

Thanks for the mentions!

you can run the open source control plane called Headscale instead of relying on Tailscale’s (the company) free service tier

Ah, that sounds more interesting. I still have time until I buy everything, there's still going to be a lot of research, especially with all the ideas and feedback people have given me in this thread.

I'll definitely try it, thanks!

Not sure if it checks all the boxes perfectly, but if not it is probably as close as youll find ready-made

That's a good point. To have cohesion and good integration, some sacrifices have to be made. This seems better than having 20 independent services working with (and sometimes probably against) each other.

Thanks for the heads-up! Those sound like acceptable problems, as long as they're temporary and my data is safe.

Google is evil but I know that GDrive has pretty low prices on data storage [...] Don’t forget to encrypt everything when uploading to these services!

That is what I am hoping for :) My free Google account grants me 15GB of online storage and my free Microsoft account provides me with another 5GB. The 15 GB should be enough for encrypted photo backups, while 5GB definitely is enough for encrypted calendar, contact and probably some document backups. I just need to find a way to automate backups to these.

based in the USA, priced at 3$/TB/month

If I am going to pay money for something and with how the world currently is, I'm going to use some EU based service. My only VPS resides at hetzner, if the need arises I will probably just add a storage volume to my VPS or upgrade it to the next tier.

The filter criteria on geizhals are so far superior to amazon (at least for computer and tv stuff), it's not even funny anymore.

Plus, you can filter for "item is physically present in shop", so you can just look up what you want and then go there and get it yourself, no need for same-day-delivery.

Up to personal preference if you trust a fork for this work

I see 3600 stars and I guess that's kinda trustworthy :) I also do like some of the enhancements listed on the github page. I'll try it, thank you very much!