https://balkon.solar/news/2022/12/11/introduction-to-plug-in-solar-or-plug-pv/

Great for you. To me is not so much a matter as to how much time but the timing. After all, you could as well be reading the most elevated book saga. On the contrary, there’s the addiction of doomscrolling… I have seen friends scrolling posts on social media even while on a pizza night surrounded by others. Or trying to have chat conversations with potential dating partners instead of an actual phone call. That’s the kind of thing I believe is troublesome, the lack of “here and now” awareness. And something similar goes to the constant checking. For example, if you or anyone uses their phone 4 hours in total, I’d say it’s better if that’s on bigger chunks than if it’s just a millon of small distractions throughout the day hindering many other activities.

Yes. I believe all self-hosting apps are like that. As an example, I have a docker container running Searxng and I use it locally on my PC as default search engine. Just keep in mind that docker compose port mapping (e.g. “3000:80”) attaches to all available IPs unless you specify it like “127.0.0.1:3000:80”.

There were times during my programming career that I just started the whole work from scratch, rethinking from the top (where I want to get) to bottom (how I have been doing it). I am sorry that I cant help you anymore, but please give this a try. Do not remove what you have, just ignore it for a moment (a day?) and start over. You might hit another wall, or no. Who knows? Good luck!

“Regression to the mean”, it was studied a century, or so, ago. It’s not about stress directly but the average/ natural/ non-stressful height is the most probable outcome indeed.

Not offline but self-hosting available , there’s LinguaCafe it’s like book reading web app with tons of niceties. I am yet to try it for myself.

SourceForge never updated UX, some devs still use it but indeed github won. I think federated social interaction will win at some point. Git is distributed itself, but user accounts, follows, notifications, etc. would benefit of federation. Forgejo might make it sooner or later .

No need of VPN. But it wouldn’t harm if you wanted to have more privacy

I’m using github.com/mag37/dockcheck for this, with its “-d N” argument. There’s a tradeoff between stability and security, you need to decide for yourself. It will also depend on what services you’re hosting. For example, nextcloud and immich would be disastrous under such a regime.

I would prefer you ask for a specific community to be created with its own rules and moderators. Thanks! I wouldn’t mix everything in here.