Whoogle, a meta-search that strips away all the nasty things from Google. Can’t live without it tbh.

Over planning can be a problem indeed. You gotta keep it simple and real. I use markdown files (plain text) and vim (text editor).

Habit tracker with all self-care tasks is the way to go for me. I use a template with my daily tasks which is easy to edit. Every day in the morning I add those tasks to my daily tracker and go about ticking each one of it. I have a goal of 6000 self-care tasks per year and with some scripts I can easily track the percentage I’ve completed. I also use the habit tracker for my hobbies.

Every day I update my habit tracker several times a day and have been doing it for almost 4 years. It has helped me immensely. In the past I felt sometimes it was a chore, but knowing how much I’ve done through the days help me keep grounded.

I don’t know if it will work, but it’s possible to tunnel all your traffic through a VPS using SSH and a piece of software called sshuttle.

Atomic Habits is a good book that might help you (or not).

I use daily habit tracking for my self-care (and also my hobbies). It’s not for everyone but it keeps me grounded.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

I don’t know about Linode, but with Hostinger you get a resource cap on CPU usage. If you put your VPS to crunch something you will be throttled down on CPU. I once tried importing Wikipedia on my VPS and had my CPU throttled down. I pay for the cheapest VPS with only one CPU. In this case you don’t really get the “full” VPS to yourself…

Making lists and time blocking

matrix.org

Why save things on github? I used to save my configs directly in the server running docker. To change anything I had to ssh into it and do the stuff.