I played around a bit with hledger, but ultimately did not see a reason to switch from ledger. I don’t remember if I ran into any issues, but at least they are not totally compatible.

Folders as a to do mechanism sounds interesting.

I’m wondering if a date-based system could work.

https://ledger-cli.org/

I stopped looking after I found ledger-cli.

Besides CSV, if you want to have lots of optional fields, a YAML file in a git repository is an option. Use yq or to query it.

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

Do you use some kind of encryption on the VPS?

How do you make sure the disk spins down? Is unmounting enough?

I look forward to Digital Wellbeing.

Considering Gnome 48 won’t hit stable distros any time soon, any recommendations for alternatives?

Is there any disk usage tool that allows you to browse the tree while it’s still being calculated, prioritizing current directory?

As a side question, are there other free DNS providers besides Cloudflare? Ones that don’t require you to register your domain there.

jrnl is a CLI tool worth mentioning when it comes to journaling, but does not cover your listed needs.

Can you elaborate what the risk is?

Find out if your ISP provides an SMTP smarthost.

Worth noting that in Finland they are also by law required to log metadata of delivered mails.

Calibre + DeDRM plugins rock.

Stick to one distribution. Using notes is fine. Make aliases if necessary. You will learn with repetition.

Learning to read manpages is honestly the best advice. They are pretty dense in information, so maybe that’s why some people go to great lengths to run circles around them looking for inferior sources of information.

Ledger is awesome.

ELI5 what is wrong with Flatpak.

Finally, a cure for insomnia. Thanks, I hate it!

Bad news mate. WW3 already started a while ago. The world is essentially in a proxy war against Russia.

You can start with dpigs. Then start marking packages automatically installed with apt-mark. aptitude may be a good frontend when removing a lot of packages, you can mark entire categories, like libraries, as automatically installed.

Pay attention to the package headers when removing packages. You don’t want to remove essential packages.