Open source is a license. What you’re referring to is “source-available.” You can’t legally fork, redistribute, or contribute to it.

.ovh domains are like $2/year, if that helps.

I like bottom right the most, but it does’t really feel like a default wallpaper as much as top left. Middle right feels like part of a tiling WM with custom colors more than a default for a DE.

Thanks, though your correction is also incorrect. Display managers, like SDDM, GDM, or LightDM, are the login screen. They’re called “display managers” for historical reasons, but they also run on top of the display server.

Display servers, not window managers. Window managers are built on top of X11 or Wayland.

Wayland is a “display server,” which basically means it manages the way GUIs show on the screen. X (most recently X11/Xorg) was the standard for over 30 years, but it was designed for computers 30 years ago. Modern concepts like scaling and high refresh rate displays need extensions to it, but it’s really complicated and hard to work with, so a lot of improvements that need to be made can’t be made. It’s also fundamentally insecure, as every window has access to both the contents and the input of any other window. Wayland is a modern replacement that focuses on security and expandability, and basically everything is working on switching to it. There are growing pains, but it’s constantly improving, and most distros use it by default now.

Be extremely careful. Plenty of people are really smart and malicious, so you need to isolate it from everything on your network. You’re giving random people remote code execution on your local network, which is like the worst case scenario for security.

Behavior-based antivirus is extremely difficult, failure-prone, and almost entirely unnecessary because of how secure Linux is, so they don’t exist to my knowledge. Signature-based antivirus is basically useless because any security holes exploited by a virus are patched upstream rather than waiting for an antivirus to block it. ClamAV focuses on Windows viruses, not Linux ones, so it can be a signature-based antivirus, but not many people run an email server accessed by Windows devices or other similar services that require ClamAV, so not many people use it, and nobody made any alternatives.

If you’re worried about security, focus on hardening and updates, not antiviruses.

A .ovh domain is more like $3 a year. That’s what I’m using.

EMS doesn’t support bridges unless you pay for the highest tier, but the list you linked is good.

etke.cc does that.

This may not fit your needs, but matrix-docker-ansible-deploy is really good, and it uses Docker and Traefik by default.

Correct. What you’d need in that case is a reverse proxy like ngrok, which is a bit more difficult to set up.

I have almost the same experience. I live in a small town in the Midwest, and the only ISP that goes to my house is Comcast/Xfinity. There’s a 1.2TB cap no matter what level you pay for, though they give you the option of paying an extra $30/month for unlimited. I’m really growing to appreciate our local ISP, which provides symmetrical FTTH, unlimited data, a static (or at least rarely changing) IP, and generally non-predatory business practices, all for a lower price than Xfinity. Unfortunately, my house is on the fringe of the town, so they don’t reach all the way here and I’m stuck with Xfinity.

Sorry for my mistake. That’s interesting.

I would recommend CrDroid. Havoc is meant to be similar to a Pixel, so it has some more Google stuff than you want, but CrDroid is basically Lineage with some extra features. I haven’t used it, but I’ve heard good things about it.

By the way, this is unimportant, but hard bricks cannot be fixed. I think you’re thinking of a soft brick.