Also worth noting that they themselves are an American company for anyone that is concerned about that.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for an S3 provider? I’m looking at Hetzner and OVH.

Long time customer and super happy with Fastmail. Its a bit pricy but the service is great.

I did this and used PostmarketOS for about a month before reinstalling LineageOS. Biggest problem for me was the lack of Camera. If you have a second device running android or iOS then it is a fun idea, but not really practical as a main device.

I absolutely hate that I have to use it, but my next best option is less than 5 Mbps.

I’m using an ancient RX580 with my Razer TB3 enclosure and it works just fine for playing older games at 1080p. Not sure I would invest in an eGPU again though, it would only cost a small amount more to build a basic gaming rig from old parts that would outperform my setup with less hassle.

What I do to keep DNS consistent inside and out is use Tailscale on all my clients. I host a DNS server hosted on my tailnet that is set up as split DNS for my “kickassdomain.org”.

Fwiw I switched from k3s to Talos and find it much easier to manage. I run 3 mini 1L PCs with rook-ceph and it works flawlessly even on 1Gbe.

I quite like Fastmail. It’s a bit expensive but the service is very reliable and they have a well established reputation. You can create masked emails using their domain or your own from the web interface.

As of the latest release (21), you can simply install microG on regular LOS and no longer need to install LineageOS for microG since it now includes the necessary signature spoofing support.

If you don’t need the GPIO then buy a small form factor office PC like a Dell Optiplex Micro or a Lenovo/HP equivalent. They cost about the same on the used market, are more performant without the ARM headache and use only marginally more power (maybe 5-10w more at idle).

Invidious?

Framework. I’ve run Debian, Fedora and for a while now NixOS, all of which have worked flawlessly.

I did have to replace the heatsink/fan part on mine because the fan bearing started clicking, but I’m sure that was just a first generation product issue (I was one of the first batches). I was glad to be able to do the replacement myself at relatively low cost and the process couldn’t have been easier (took about 30 minutes).

My previous machine was a 2013-ish ThinkPad X series and the Framework absolutely blows it out of the water. I’m looking forward to upgrading mine to a Ryzen motherboard sometime in the not so distant future.