I went exactly the same route. Years of proxmox realizing it is not KISS in any way for my use cases. Switches to Nixos on ZFS root (so no bash installation scripts ;) ).

However, docker has not the same level of isolation and security as VMs. I am currently looking into gVisor for that.

My t440s is 10 years now. Still going strong as my main and only computer. Although, those frame.works’s look really nice.

Ansible and Terraform united. Make something out of it IBM.

You just update DNS entry if your ip changes (automatically over api ofc)

Have a look at kopia. But a proper backup is never set and forget.

You’re joking. You’re joking, right? Right?

Just self host the bridges. I mean if you trust your phone more than your server, this won’t help.

2. Some are easy like mam
3. I am using all my private trackers with VPN. Some even encourage that.

Wuhu that’s nice, thank you! But it is speech-to-text, right?

Never worry about backups or lost data etc, as the provider would take care of it

This is not how it works. You still have to backup your data!

Your account can be closed due to various reasons, you accidentally delete files, some malware deletes files without you noticing it before it is too late.

A friend of mine lost some important data because of the ovh server container fire incident. Ovh had no backups.