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.
"Everyone has what they deserve"
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.
Journaling is OK but what really keeps me grounded is an habit tracker. Without it my life is pure chaos.
Interstellar Age or any book from Jordan Peterson
Living one day at a time
password-store is a CLI app to store passwords and even supports OTP.
Whoogle is a meta search (still uses Google search) that takes the bloat off.
Matrix is a decentralized and secure messaging platform.
For email I have a vps (costs less than protonmail) and use Maddy.
There are a few good firefox alternatives, I use waterfox on my phone and floorp on my Linux PC.
Permanently Deleted
Do a rehearsal move. Pack everything you have into boxes. Take out from the boxes only the things you need to use. Things that stay in the box for more than 12 months are things you probably don't need and you can donate/sell them.
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.
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...
There is a book called the four agreements. This book helped me a lot.
You could play all of them with a modded 3ds. It's fairly easy (imho) to mod a 3ds.
Making lists and time blocking
Saves for some systems are not stored in the Emulation/saves folder
I learned now about the export/import tool, but this wouldn't help me anyway since my steamdeck couldn't boot neither of the 2 boot environments.
After reinstalling the OS and emudeck I noticed some systems still had saves but others didn't.
I dig into it and found that the save folders for thoses systems were just links to the home partition. Since I lost my OS and had to reinstall I also lost the data on my home, including those saves.
I would expect the saves to be all in the Emulation/saves folder on my SD card so I could easily reinstall the whole system without loosing them.
It seems the easiest way out is to create symlinks from the SD card to the home partition, not the other way around. First one needs to move the folders to the ad card.
The emulators I use and don't save directly to the SD card are:
undefined
retroarch
riujinx
citra
Ppsspp
dolphin
When I find motivation I will write a shell script to make the links for me and move things around.
The ex
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.
A frontpage with links to all services and a monitoring app like Monitoror to allow me to check what's running.