Not the answer you're looking for, but I have a self-hosted Calibre server and I stuck to a second hand Kindle I got. It would be neat to be able to browse my remote library like on the Kobo, but I'd rather buy what's second-hand, cheap and readily available (lots of these perfectly working pre-loved Kindles and Kobos). Transfer lots of books at once and I rarely have to do it since I read slowly. If you use it for magazines/news/comics, then other more libre and open recommendations seem quite good.
I have Thorium installed for when I occasionally have to use it for frontend webdev. It claims to be a lot faster than the other Chromium alternatives.
There needs to be some crawler bot for Discord is deployed by the dev/mods that crawls through questions and answers in Discord "threads" and upload it to whatever issue tracker the project uses. I don't know how feasible it is though. Or maybe it's been done.
I use both Simplelogin and Anonaddy (Simplelogin for the very spammy stuff that would chew up my Anonaddy bandwidth), so I can provide some anecdotal insights. I use both on the free tier though, so keep in mind that my experience could be different.
For what it's worth, I found Anonaddy to be a lot faster/reliable on average. Some of my Simplelogin alias would take longer to relay the emails. I also like the interface of Anonaddy more, something about Simplelogin just looks and feels cheap to me. The Anonaddy Android app is also nicer and smoother, but these are purely aesthetic opinions. I also don't really care about the Proton integration, but Simplelogin trying to shove that in my face all the time is a bit annoying.
Overall, I spread out my aliases over both services so it's a bit less centralised, with most going towards Anonaddy. But if I were to choose between the two, I would go with Anonaddy.
Thanks for the write up. I'll share what my experience as well. I'm currently using a 75 Hz and a 144 Hz GSYNC-compatible monitor, with force full composition pipeline on for both, at their max refresh rates, and I'm getting correct refresh rates for both monitors. I'm not using picom because I see no window tearing (probably from force full composition pipeline being on) and have no need for fancy animations. Although when I turn picom on with the --no-vsync flag, refresh rates are still correct but I'm getting a tiny bit of input delay and slightly janky scrolling.
I remember seeing a bug report / issue thread somewhere and that Xorg now prioritizes the display with the highest refresh rate, at the cost of the other one being a bit janky (so 144 Hz and 72 Hz work because 72 is a multiple of 144, but 144 Hz and 60 Hz will mean the 60 Hz display is janky, but the 144 Hz one is smooth).
When gaming though, I have to turn off the second monitor, turn off composition pipeline to get GSYNC to work.
They also happen to only visit Amerika too. Aliens, for all I care, is a purely epistemological uncertainty. I stay agnostic on whether or not they are out there. What is absurd is that while all these devices we have pointing up at the sky to see and hear things from all the spectrums detected no UFOs, yet the aliens are just there hovering above Amerika. I would expect extraterrestrial life studies to come from some meticulously put-together study from scientists (who are very good at pattern recognition and also statistical reasoning). The simplest explanation here is that they're just a distraction deployed en-masse.
I'm with Migadu at the moment and I find it quite agreeable so far. There is a free, no credit card trial if you want to try it out. They're Swiss, hosting in France, if you want your data on EU grounds and not the US for a better privacy.
No root, I keep my bootloader locked. The frozen apps stay frozen even if you turn off wireless debugging and disconnect Shizuku. It's a bit annoying but I'm used to that long workflow. Other than that, as the Graphene maintainers recommend, I don't keep Shizuku or wireless debugging running at all times.
I don't use Netbird, but at first glance they don't seem to gave a mobile client yet? This means it's limited to desktop usage right now. Otherwise, it's built on Wireguard, which is the same with Tailscale. The only difference being the maturity of each project, Tailscale being the more mature one.
Headscale is the open source Tailscale login server that you can self-host, by the way.
Wezterm for me, I like the multiplexer that comes with it.