I like dietpi. It makes a bunch of stuff way easier to manage and deal with.

Even once you know cli commands, it’s faster and easier to manage some things like services from their cli-gui.

Not sure for the laptop. My phone can only connect to one VPN at a time.

I use NordVPN because they’re built-in mesh feature is essentially VPN tunnel and that can run while you’re connected to their VPN.

Try NetBird instead of Tail/headscale. All in one app.

Stopped buying their garbage years ago.

Watch Apple and their plan to use Chinese ram. It will be the real game changer.

It will just hammer your ssd/hdd page file instead.

That’s why they decided to fix the prices for the next few years.