I hope customer protection will eventually force new terms on the “you buy the rights to view a movie which can be revoked anytime without reason”. Like, given that most digital offers are priced nearly as high as their physical counterparts, there should be a law that the right must be given for at least 50 years or so.

Self hosting your own CI/CD is the key for OP. Littering is solved too because litter is only a problem on long running servers, which is an anti-pattern in a CI/CD environment.

And with that my reddit consumption is restricted to desktop only (as long as old reddit works)

Exactly. They should be learning a variety of different operating systems and apps. However, that implies that teachers are familiar with the tech.

As long as the web client works, I’ll use teams from inside Firefox thank you very much.

How so? If you have non-free enabled, shouldn’t apt install nvidia-driver work?

We use renovate mostly for container images and nuget/npm/maven dependencies.

If it’s relevant for your job, go for k8s. The more you tinker with it, the more knowledge you’ll accumulate. Is it the optimal solution for a self hosting setup? Well, it depends but most probably not.