NixOS unstable. I like being able to define my system as code. I also don’t need that high of stability and would rather have more up to date software in most cases. I have thought about using stable releases for things like basic http and DNS servers but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

My encryption key dies with me and nobody will be bothered to save my drives and crack them.

Gcompat is not very effective but most open source software works with minimal patching.

I already used desec.io for my domains back when I had static IP blocks at home so I just used the dyndns api with ddclient to update them automatically for my dynamic IP.

Almost everything that can be is: laptops, desktop, servers (LUKS), phone (grapheneos)

I don’t work but I use a script using w3m to print HTML as text. You can find those in the aerc repo.

aerc with mbsync and msmtp and neovim for composing

App images don’t work on alpine. Use flat pack or run the app image in a chroot

Alpine is great on the desktop too! I use it on all my desktops, laptops and servers.

A molex to PCIe adapter with an 850w power supply. I only have like 10 watts of headroom but usually only one gpu is running at a time so it works fine. I would have bought a better one but my dad accidentally bought 2 for another project so he had an extra one and it works fine.

I have been running wayland with sway for around 6-10 months (I forget when I switched). I have a 4-monitor setup and hated the default workspace management but swaysome convinced me to switch. I heard a lot of stuff about how manual tiling is bad but I actually don’t mind it and kind of prefer it to automatic tiling from AwesomeWM which I used before sway, .

I have a 6700xt for Linux and an old 2070 that I pass through to a windows guest. I might get a usb card too to pass through but not sure if I have any more space in my mid tower for another pci card.

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I would not suggest mastodon for such low powered hardware, its also overkill for a personal instance. Akkoma or GotoSocial would work much better on a Pi. The annual cost is pretty much just 3-15$/year for the domain name.

Still fedora based