When he first started he used Pop!_OS and an issue with their packages uninstalled the DE when he tried to install steam which was a really terrible look. A bug which I believe wasn’t present in any other debian/ubuntu based distro. He then moved to Manjaro, an Arch-based distro, and just had more problems with hardware.

I wish they’d try again and just use a user-friendly distro with more momentum behind it and stability, and realistically that means Ubuntu or Mint. Or take a tour through desktop environments, package managers, and what the differences between distros actually are.

Related to OP’s question: is it possible to have the 1B boot from something other than an SD card?

I ran it as a PiHole for awhile, until it chewed through two SD cards

I have been using KeePass for eight years. Used to just shuffle the file around with Google Drive, now I have it sync’d with Syncthing across a few devices. I use its notes feature to store associated data like S3 keys and it stores my SSH key and KeePassXC can automatically add it to an SSH agent.

I don’t really have any complaints about it.

Docker cp piped into restic, uploading to wasabi. Works well, I recently recovered from a hard drive failure and everything just worked.

Yep. Used to be my fiance’s college laptop.

Works for me, running about 30 containers. The Philips hub has recently been replaced by a Conbee II

In Linux it is possible to turn the screen off after a timeout and keep the system on with the lid closed.

Vikunja seems to support all of this in its list view. You can add and sort by labels, those labels are displayed in the list view, and you can drag and drop items and their order is maintained. It is a selfhosted web interface so all devices will have the latest data.

It has an API that’s capable of anything the normal interface can do (as it plugs into the same API,) so if you’re interested in scripting that would be a big bonus. I wrote a script that glues it ntfy for notifications on overdue tasks or reminders.

Vikunja has become my whole life todo list app and I throw server stuff on there too. I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit.