Windows sandbox is easy.

A gaming focused distro will do everything else well too, so thats probably why.

It feels like Bazzite tells you a million times over that you absolutely should not layer packages, it scared me off for sure since I’m new to immutable systems and don’t really know how they work fully.

Depends what protocols you need?

If you use SMB install the Samba server package. If you use WebDAV install a WebDAV server like SFTPGo, etc…

If you want a google drive like replacement there’s Nextcloud, Owncloud, Seafile, and others.

For the drives themselves you can have traditional RAID with MD, or ZFS for more reliability and neat features, or go with MergerFS + SnapRAID, or just directly mount the disks and store files on some and backup to the others with Restic or something.

Lots of options!

It doesnt graph over time really, it only does it while open and loses the data if you close it.

Here’s an actual answer, a system monitor with historical data: https://beszel.dev/

It’s a webUI but that shouldn’t really matter vs an app with its own GUI.

I wonder how big the crossover is between people that let AI run commands for them, and people that don’t have a single reliable backup system in place. Probably pretty large.

I’ve never had spam issues with catchall, and it saves a ton of time vs having to go create aliases constantly.

Its a setting on the mail server/provider.

I’ve never had issues with it, been using it for years.

I use a custom domain with catch-all enabled.

Might be time to self host vaultwarden if you need real DB features like that.

That’s what backups solve, for important data like a PW DB you should be running daily backups with versioning. Then if anything gets deleted or corrupted you can restore it easily.

No, because it still stops everyone else from reading your messages.

There’s no guarantee google will scrape and store encrypted messages, plus by not using an encrypted messenger you’re opening up your conversations to everyone else, not just potentially google.

Seeding works fine without port forwarding. Just won’t be connecting to as many peers.

Also Thunderbird, but specifically the Betterbird fork.

It works well, its fast, its lightweight (like 100-200MB of RAM), and has lots of features.

I also have my calendar in it.

Tailscale or Zerotier are the current best options I think.

Thats bad practice though, external drives in Linux should be mounted with no write caching just like they are in windows.

Or even:

1. Visit website Y that uses a service to fingerprint and track users.
2. Fingerprint is now stored with tracking company.
3. Every other website that uses said tracking service now knows who you are regardless of using a VPN or clearing cookies.