I rent and have carpet everywhere. I have placed a disposable rug on top of the carpet around the eating/drinking area to catch all the mess.

As a non American I can’t understand how anyone could vote for Donald twice.

I am trying to do the same migration from plex to jellyfin but jellyfin keeps crashing on the server with ‘out of memory’ in the logs. As soon as I can stabilize that I will dump Plex lifetime. I initially had sync server setting turned on in Plex and Plex kept sending cleartext phone SMS about what I had watched the day before. That is turned off now. I asked Plex corp for a copy of my data. They sent it to me but ‘forgot’ to send the database table with watch history. They sent me that table when I complained it was missing. Fuck Plex and their spyware.

I only use Thunderbird calendar for myself so I don’t know. Proton includes a calendar offering in their package but I have not tried it yet.

See above. Plus I use Thunderbird for calendar.

Proton for email and cloud storage. Graphenos on a pixel 7a for phone. Phone spps from aurora and fdroid. Kagi.com paid search engine too.

+1 for pixel. I just ordered a 7a for grapheneos.

Yes, dual boot. It is a Dell Optiplex. Windows re-enables devices disabled in device manager.

I do that as well. I just use dual boot windows for samsung disk tools and logitech software. Couldn’t get either to work in a vm.

Thanks for the list. I will try the mac address block on the router idea for windows and set a non default mac address when linux boots.

About 1% of what is needed.

I have to remember this for next winter. Going into summer here.

Proton plus here too. I use the vpn, 500gb drive for backups, and have set up my own domain name email. I tried their password manager but didnt like it at all. I dont think it is ready yet.

I have the OS (with docker) mirrored too. So no reinstalling, just disk or other parts swapping in case of a failure. I hope. A mothboard swap is the worst downtime. I have done this and needed to fiddle with network settings due to changed net interface name to get the server up again.

I put my dockers on mirrored zfs pool and have enough spare parts in case of breakdowns.

head and tail

It took me about 6 months to de-gmail. Well worth it in the end. Im with paid protonmail now.