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Syncthing is neat, but you shouldn't consider it to be a backup solution. If you accidentally delete or modify a file on one machine, it'll happily propagate that change to all other machines.

or DNS over TCP.

musl does support DNS over TCP since version 1.2.4.

Debian is superior for server tasks. musl is designed to optimize for smaller binaries on disk. Memory is a secondary goal, and cpu time is a non-goal. musl isn’t meant to be fast, it’s meant to be small and easily embedded.

I've used Alpine on servers a lot and didn't notice any performance difference when compared to glibc in the vast majority of cases. This performance comparison even suggests that musl is quite a bit faster in some cases and in most instances it is at least as fast as glibc, which matches my experience.

Okay, thanks for the explanation!

I’m not entirely sure how “… don’t need anything near as memory efficient as Alpine” became “Debian is obviously superior to Alpine”.

This was what made me assume this:

I only ever consider dropping Debian and/or Systemd when going below 512MB RAM.

You make it sound like Debian is obviously superior to Alpine. Alpine Linux is just fine for server tasks. It is nice that is it lightweight, but that isn't the only thing it has going for it.

Most Webbrowser Support ftp.

None of the popular web browsers support FTP. Maybe some niche browsers still do, but certainly not "most".

All this is correct, but keep in mind that you still leak domain names until ECH (encrypted client hello) is in wide-spread use. It is of course still a good idea to use encrypted DNS, just don't assume your ISP can't see which websites you are accessing.

also i am having trouble hunting down what cuesheets means in this context?

When you rip an audio CD you can either create one file for each track or you can rip the entire CD as one track and create a cue sheet file which is basically a text file describing where each track starts in that single audio file. This can be useful to have an exact copy of the CD without adding unintended gaps between tracks. It is primarily useful if you intend on recreating the actual audio CD at a later time from the ripped data. Most people don't need this.

Yeah, that's mostly because performance is so poor without it.

and that your cpu might not be able to provide enough data.

That also depends on the settings and resolution you plan on playing with. The higher the visual settings and resolution, the more demand is on the GPU. So when you plan to play on very high visual settings at a high resolution, a higher end GPU might make sense even with an older CPU.

I am pretty sure that this is not true. While Intel Arc GPUs really should be paired with a mainboard with resizable BAR for performance reasons, they will still work without it, although with pretty bad performance.

If you plan on running the laptop all the time on wall power, make sure to limit the battery charge to 80 % or less, otherwise the battery will die pretty quickly.