You could get the education edition. I have a new yoga 11e and it has a great keyboard, and it's just... way too good for the money (250 bucks). I love that if I break or lose it I can just get an idenical one for super cheap in a couple days. But they're made for kids so they're pretty durable anyway.
I'm curious why you've never tried pop? I thought i'd hate the tiling and all that, but it and the gestures are so intuitive... i've used all sorts of desktop environments on linux over the last 20 some years, and pop is by far the most usabunity with the least learning curve.
Another vote for hetzner. I'd even recommend their hosted nextcloud instances, because they're a pretty good value and you don't have to mess with it.
Otherwise, i've had good dealings with virmach, and they have 'cloud vps' offerings with very little compute power, but a lot of storage for an inexpensive price.
I'd also recommend biting the bullet and figuring out docker and docker compose at the get go, because it's the way people do things these days, and it's that way for a.whole lot of very good reasons.
My personal opinion on totp is that it's better to store them in bitwarden than to not use them at all, especially if your password is good and you've enforced two factor for registering a new device to bitwarden. It's definitely not the best way, but a lot more people can be convinced to right click and paste in an otp code over authenticating to a device, a totp app, and manually typing it in.
It's pretty important to remember that each device that you've installed the bitwarden client on has a local copy of your passwords, and you can always export your passwords too. So yeah, you need to have good backups in place if you self host vaultwarden, but I think it's one of the lower risk services to run in terms of actually losing your data.
I built a compact nas. While it's enough for the drives I need, even for upgrades, I only have 1 pcie x4 slot. Which is becoming a bit limiting. I didn't think i'd have a need for for either a tape drive or a graphics card, and I have some things I want to do that require both. Well, I can only do one unless I get a different motherboard and case. Which means i'm basically doing a new build and I don't want to do either of the projects I had in mind enough to bother with that.
You need to be a little more generous to yourself, friend. Compared to a kid, you do know what you're doing, and thankfully kid troubles are mostly not a big deal, so you probably will know what to do. From a certain point of view.
I tried arch and got rid of it after a couple months because of the aur. Do people just not check out what they're installing? Every time I wanted a new software i'd have to check it out to make sure it was legit, and every time I updated i'd have to check the diffs to make sure it was still legit. Otherwise, who knows what you're actually installing.
You can also use their CLI app to send yourself all sorts of notifications from all your selfhosted services. The only really irritating thing is that they won't provide an arm binary, and compiling the app on arm is... decidedly not easy.
Why is this better for you than using a folder structure with a decent naming convention? I've tried to get started a couple times, but I just haven't managed to get what's better about it. I know i'm missing something, and I feel like if I knew what it is i'd be more likely to out in the work to transition.
In that case, you'd be connecting to the vps without a VPN. So the company would have your ip, and anonymous payment won't do anything about that. It would help your blacklisting problem, and your WiFi censorship problem though. Just stick with a reputable company. I use hetzner and dedipath and i'm happy with both of them.
What are you wanting to host? There are some ways to limit what they have access to, or increase the amount of work to access it, but it's pretty dependent on the actual services.
How are you liking shiori? I've not found a bookmark manager that's worth going through my horrible mess of bookmarks yet, but the offline archive option looks interesting.
After onboarding the interface is kind of rough to figure out. Mostly because the mobile web version isn't that great, and jerboa also isn't that great, and they're different enough that switching back and forth gets you confused. With reddit's problems, I imagine we'll see some more client apps and ui improvements show up in the next couple months with the added attention, and that'll be the end of that. Honestly, I thought it'd be rougher. I do wish I got more replies to my comments though, so i'm trying to make a point to post a bit more than I ordinarily would.
You could get the education edition. I have a new yoga 11e and it has a great keyboard, and it's just... way too good for the money (250 bucks). I love that if I break or lose it I can just get an idenical one for super cheap in a couple days. But they're made for kids so they're pretty durable anyway.