This, and any decent RGB keyboard will support plain white backlighting, which should open up a lot of options

I just tried this and it was blurry until I logged out and back in!

There’s some instructions here but basically:

1. sudo apt install zram-config

2. append to end of /etc/sysctl.conf:

   vm.swappiness = 180
   # disable swap readahead (since using zram swap)
   vm.page-cluster = 0 
   

   Can check these have been applied with cat /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster or .../swappiness

I also live in Europe

My x1 carbon, with tlp and kubuntu, idling with screen on estimates 20 hours battery life. Haven’t had the patience to test it yet.

If you run iCloud and syncthing on the same machine you can point syncthing at the icloud folder, and you’ve got a way to sync icloud to Linux.

Also there are plenty of Ubuntu-based distros that look different!

True facts

I’m basically doing the same, but those “pending update, close the app to avoid disruptions” popups are kind of disrupting.

Been using rsnapshot for years, has saved me more than once

This looks like the kind of thing I would like to use, but I’m already tied into the plain markdown files “ecosystem“. Maybe I can import my stuff into anytype?

It solves a bunch of stuff caused by IMAP being a bit of a mess. Top of the list of JMAP benefits is:

[JMAP] is stateless. It doesn’t need a persistent connection, which is better for mobile use, which may have intermittent network access and where battery life must be conserved by turning the radio off whenever possible.

The colours are better