Evolution, Thunderbird and KMail, depending on the system. Though I’ve had only trouble with Thunderbird and gpg signing with a yubikey. The others just work.

On Android I’m using FairMail.

Went with lineage since I grew up on cyanogenmod.

Maki

Whenever my fiio runs out of power. About once a week.

Is anything keeping you from just reinstalling the system and mounting your home into it again (maybe the majority of your customisations live in /home too)? I feel that is a lot less of a hassle than copying files around.

In principle you should be able to restore your system by just copying all of the relevant files from the backup to their correct partitions - it can’t really get any worse if it doesn’t work.

For the future: A backup is only any good if you know how to restore it and tested that that actually works.

Regarding the permissions: If you do a cp fileA.txt fileB.txt fileB.txt will normally be owned by the creating user. So a sudo cp ... will create the files as root.

I would personally use rsync with a few additional options, archive among them. This way the fs is restored exactly as it was. But that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if the files weren’t copied that way too.

Nouveau is stable and runs, but don’t expect the best performance. The official NVIDIA driver is unstable, lacks proper wayland support but has decent performance. I’d go with anything but a NVIDIA GPU.

I got a bunch of the Seagate Exos x18. Greate price/TB and performance. Though they were only the 16TB SATA variant and not the SAS one.

Syncthing on my Kobo and all other devices where I want access to my books.

Exim and Dovecot. With a clean IP on a VPS and SPF, DKIM and DMARC I haven’t really encountered any problems yet. Though I’m only doing it for about 2 years.

I have a cheap Kobo and put KOReader and Syncthing on it.

I couldn’t even work if I had aliases in my muscle memory. Imagine ssh’ing to a server and every second command you issue doesn’t exist because it’s some weird alias you set up for yourself.

I’ll stick with the “pure” command and use tab completion.

That’s also part of the reason why I don’t use some of the fancy new tools like ripgrep and exa.

cmix :)

Seriously though, probably tar+gz/xz/etc.

So what’s stopping you from putting your LaTeX files into a git repo and building them into a pdf when needed?