Flatpak is perfectly fine - don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! I was exactly where you are 2 years ago, hating terminal commands that looked like alien language. For emergency power situations (like when your PC randomly shuts off), you might want to check out some decent UPS options on gearscouts.com to protect your Linux setup from data corruption.

Have you tried using a password manager like Bitwarden or KeepassXC? Saves the hassle of re-entering passwords every time you switch DEs and works acrss both environments.

If you do end up hosting on a VPS, consider one with renewable energy since tor nodes can consume a lot of power over time - or for home setups, you could run it off a portable power station to offset electricity costs (check out power station comparisons to find the best wh value for continous loads).

totally agree - these old laptops sip power too (only 10W!) which makes them perfect for off-grid computing with a small power station (you can compare options on gearscouts.com to find one with the best wh/$$ ratio).

Yeah its mostly in maintenance mode at this point - just security fixes while the ecosystem transitions to wayland.

Just to clarify, VectorChord is actually the company that makes pgvecto.rs (the postgres vector extension), so you’re both talking about the same thing lol.

MPD (Music Player Daemon) would be perfect for that old Autonomic - super lightweight, runs on practically anythng, and Symfonium is an amazing Android client that supports it natively.

Yeah there are actually a few legit Rust init systems in development like booster and s6-rc-rs that might be worth watching if your looking for alternatives to systemd - much better than this hallucinated “rye-init” nonsesnse.