BlackEco

I 100% agree with your advice.

I tried learning Portuguese with Duolingo, in a couple of months I only managed to learn words, but no grammar. I fared better with Babel, which has more structured courses, but since there was no accountability, I wasn’t diligent and did not progress much. Finally, I enrolled in an evening class and in the span of 4 months my level went from “I barely know the basics” to A1.2

Also, as others mentioned, consuming content in said language and conversing (even online) helps a lot (that’s how I honed my English), having a pen pal is even better.

I’ve always used OVH, never had problems with them. They also offer emails for pretty cheap.

I did not stray much from the default setup as I rarely need more than one container, especially at work. I did set some rules like opening YouTube and inbox.google.com (which redirects to GMail) in the Personal one.

I also installed the very handy Easy Container Shortcuts for opening new containers with keyboard shortcuts, as well as Facebook Container in an attempt to limit Meta’s tracking^[1].

Oh right, I confuse the two

Power off. I never used hibernation nor suspend (even on Windows) and as I don’t use some of my computers for weeks, it just doesn’t make sense to keep them suspended for so long. And now that I’m on Fedora Atomic Desktop with auto-updates, I would have to reboot regularly anyway in order to apply updates.

Only exception is the Steam Deck for which I kept suspend so I can pick up my games where I left off.

In France it’s dirt cheap, I’m paying 23,99€/month for symmetric 1Gbps FTTH.