Oh cool! I've never had a lemmy DM before so hopefully it works okay, but if all else fails you can defer it to the next person :)

Highly recommended a yaml "linter" :)

Wow, was pretty heavily bombarded by domains ads just a few weeks ago!

Oh I used to play starfighter on PS2 as a kid, that would be pretty nostalgic! In any case very kind of you to do this.

Mostly remember looking at the printer in a game shop thinking I'll never afford this. Very cool result.

Yep podman is FOSS. It was developed by redhat originally, which might be concerning to some given the recent news about RHEL, but that's probably not relevant. Use it for homeassistant, etc and it can be less ready-out-the-box than normal docker but works well on the whole. Mind you if you have an issue with docker-the-system rather than any docker.io controversy, then it probably isn't for you either.

Have you also tried nix, if so did you have any particular reason to stick with guix (maybe the Foss aspect)?

(any politics aside) Consider learning even just some French to maximize your experience. IMO you'll open yourself up to more experiences/interactions.