IMO deleting the account is more information than just not using it, legally speaking, at least in the US, deleting an account doesn’t even change the terms you agreed to, so I see no reason to do anything special.

Gitea is great, it took me about an hour or so from not knowing anything about it to having a full docker container up and running. If you are not too accustomed to self hosting I would caution against thinking it will be easy to have the server accessible to the internet as that assumption is incredibly wrong.

If you want to learn how to do it in a way that doesn’t screw you in the future, I would shy away from the GUI side of things, everyone who helps with issues related to git operates under the assumption that you are familiar with the CLI so if you don’t want to have to translate CLI commands to their respective actions in the GUI, I would bite the bullet and learn the commands.

Shouldn’t this be a non issue for the gateway. For more context on my setup, I have a jellyfin & navidrome server which are all lan. I have a wireguard exit node, a WiFi ap, Plex server, & normal residential traffic which would be querying wan quite often. Would you still expect to see the drawbacks of software switching? If so, what would you reccomend for the router?

But please don’t use OPNsense as a switch.

Could you elaborate, why is it bad as a switch?

For my notification needs I need only unified push with Mozilla sunup & if that is not an option or if it is not reliable I use websocket. The latter has battery life issues, but some services have very poor unified push servers.

I think the best of both worlds, assuming you don’t need rebootless updating, is the distros that act as immutable for any given update set, but allow updates ala rolling release and just cache the previous image. This way you have the newest packages while having an easy recovery method if the update breaks things

If I new that, I wouldn’t have an issue, all I know is that my Linux and windows desktops are unable to do it, so if I were to take myself as a sample, I would conclude that it doesn’t work at all, which is what I used to go by when making posts until others were having good experiences with it. Nowadays most of the time when it gets brought up, I’ll see roughly an even split of people for which it doesn’t work and those for who it does, I surmise that there is some fundamental misunderstanding that myself and others have that causes this, but as of right now I haven’t been able to figure it out.

The biggest issue I’ve had with element calls specifically is no audio on screen shares, they keep claiming it’s fixed, but there are a lot of setups that don’t allow it, of which mine is included. I don’t know if other call protocols have better luck, but fluxer has been solid for it since I started using it.

As far as I am concerned, fluxer fills the niche of the bridge between open protocols and discord for normies. Xmpp doesn’t have clients for all major OS’s and matrix is finicky if you care about the voice and video side of things.

I don’t know how it is in the UK, but I use street complete to contribute to osm

Does anyone know what the drawback of a setup that distills the sea water and then air dries the brine. This always seemed like the easiest solution when I thought about it?

Have you considered the macbook neo, it’s not a Linux machine, but it is probably the cheapest machine that fits the glorified tablet footprint. I don’t understand the draw to something that basic and lightweight, but if it mattered to me I would probably go with that. Otherwise, as others have pointed out, some flavor of Linux will run on just about anything that isn’t ARM at this point, and I wouldn’t be surprised if an old netbook would just work for your use case with a lightweight distro.