If there is docker image for what you need, use docker image.

If not I would recommend systemd-nspawn, it’s chroot but can run systemd init, with efforts you can run GUI applications from it too., wiping that is just sudo rm -rf.

I wish there is everything for Linux.

fsearch has the looks but last time I tried I needs to wait for it to scan, no background indexing.

Also using PurelyMail, tt’s the cheapest non-free email service I can find.

It passes email delivery tests, setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC easily without issue.

The downside is that it’s basically one man handling whole this service, but I assume this service has been fully automated because the margin of profit is so low.

Some video players can open .mpls files (usually found under PLAYLIST folder), if your video player supports that you probably can see chapters.

On Ubuntu 22.04 based distro, you can try install HWE (hardware enablement) kernels but you need a phone that can share WIFI/mobile connection through USB cable.

sudo apt update; sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-22.04

Try posting output of lspci command here, gives us more information about your laptop hardware.

Mkvtoolnix for converting bdmv folder to mkvtoolnix without re-encoding.

Deep packet inspection is a thing, AFAIK people in China uses a software called v2ray to counter that.

All the series I recommends below are complete. (tells story from start to end)

• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (There are TV series and movies that both tell similar story but not the same, TV series have darker story)

• Kill la Kill

• Blast of Tempest

• Assassination Classroom

• Back Arrow (first half of series is meh but it becomes better and better)

• Mob psycho 100

• Summer Time Render

I currently have Pulsed Media seedbox, which has SSH access (no root) and docker, haven’t tried something like plex/jelyfin so I can’t tell how well it works.

• You should google the name if you want to try them, negative things pops up.

• Password authentication can’t be turned off for SSH.

some sort of dashboard with monitoring and statuses of all my services

See if Uptime Kuma suits your needs.

Are there any major no-no things a newbie might do with Docker/selfhosting that I should avoid?

Allow password based SSH authentication, you should look into key based authentication

I wanted to have it behind a domain, how would I achieve it?

Use a reverse proxy (like caddy) which serves different content based on domain name.

Stats from my seedbox (all public torrents)

Uploaded: 638.311 TiB

Downloaded: 29.120 TiB

Ratio: 21.91

I think thunderbird always delay major version upgrade until <version>.2.

If you observe their changelog:

115.0: only offer binary download, not as upgrade

102.0: only offer binary download, not as upgrade

102.1.2: only offer binary download, not as upgrade

102.2: no such disclaimer

They also has the same disclaimer for 91.x, that’s how Thunderbird decided to distribute update.

Which announced removal of port forwarding.

https://www.ivpn.net/knowledgebase/general/do-you-support-port-forwarding/

I setup syncthing from seedbox to my NAS.

https://netboot.xyz/

You might not need it but it’s a very small image (3.5MB for multi-arch iso) so why not?

Official wiki page that lists AP with Wifi AX support

(Some devices that lists “Snapshot” might be supported by 23.05 currently in release candidate phase)

If I remember correctly you can plug in phone line to RJ45, this stackovwerflow question lists some caveats.

I know Micron Storage Executive can run in Ubuntu Live USB, too bad Micron/Crucial doesn’t have attractive offering where I live.

Ubuntu freezes package version number (with only few exceptions like browsers) when they release a new version.

You will either need to wait for a new version (most likely 23.10) or use 3rd party maintained PPAs.

Use a cellphone under trees in rain.

Learned few days ago that it’s not actually dangerous, at least doesn’t make you have a higher change to be struck by thunder.