I've found that the fake sugars taste acidic, so if I go with acidic soda like orange soda, it masks it well enough. I didn't drink much soda but sugar free orange Fanta is my go-to now.

I use my personal domain name with Zoho mail. It's like $15 a year for their 10GB plan so not free but very cheap. I have it set up so literally anything@mydomain.com goes into my inbox, and I can set up folders with rules if I want. It works very well for me, and from the limited research I did their privacy stance is good, but that wasn't a super big deal for me or else I might have looked at Tuta more as the next best thing. I think I shied away from them because Zoho supports 3rd party email apps and I think with Tuta you have to use their app.

You are literally the only end l other person I've ever heard talk about John Dies at the End. I loved that book! It sticks with me now, like 15 years after reading it and I still think about it.

I use a hetzner storage box with borg backups for my backups. It's pretty cheap and has enough space for my VM and LXC backups, as well as my proxmox host backup. I don't backup my media collection because that would cost a lot, and I can always redownload most of the things I have if needed.

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Moonlighter. That would actually be pretty dope. Just diving into endless castle dungeons killing demons, and then selling their drops in your quaint little merchant shop.

The only thing I'd say is look into whatever tooling and scripts people have made for removing CSAM from your instance. I messed around with a Lemmy instance for a bit, but when I heard about how hard it was to deal with the pedos, I got a little scared about inadvertently hosting CSAM and decided to shut it down. Since then I think I remember hearing about some better automated tooling for that kind of thing though so hopefully you can set that up.

Beedle

Look into Oracle cloud's Always Free tier of cloud instances. I have a few of those and they're decent for free.

That works to an extent, as long as you aren't talking to your friends about the show, who might then go off and watch it somewhere that supports her.

John Dies at the End was a wonderfully weird, semi-horror book I read in high school. Wikipedia describes it as comic Lovecraftian horror. Perfectly tasteless while also having really interesting plot hooks. I still think about that book even now, 15 years later. There's also a movie adaptation but they cut so much it's almost a completely different story.

Same height. They're almost exactly the same size.

My dog has eaten the shit from my wife's dog straight from the source, without it even touching the ground...