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A soil moisture measuring device to tell when plants need watering. 2 for $10 on amazon.

I only use Thunderbird calendar for myself so I don’t know. Proton includes a calendar offering in their package but I have not tried it yet.

See above. Plus I use Thunderbird for calendar.

Proton for email and cloud storage. Graphenos on a pixel 7a for phone. Phone spps from aurora and fdroid. Kagi.com paid search engine too.

+1 for pixel. I just ordered a 7a for grapheneos.

Yes, dual boot. It is a Dell Optiplex. Windows re-enables devices disabled in device manager.

I do that as well. I just use dual boot windows for samsung disk tools and logitech software. Couldn’t get either to work in a vm.

Thanks for the list. I will try the mac address block on the router idea for windows and set a non default mac address when linux boots.

I have to remember this for next winter. Going into summer here.

Proton plus here too. I use the vpn, 500gb drive for backups, and have set up my own domain name email. I tried their password manager but didnt like it at all. I dont think it is ready yet.

habit mostly. in case i need to recover from a bad kernel update or botched grub config. i jave never needed the backups.

nvidia-smi gives info about gpu usage and drivers in use.

/etc /home /root /boot for me

head and tail