Encrypt your data period. A burglar isn't going to worry about your home lab unless it's oozing money from the look of it.
Your family and friends will be the ones to snoop your data. So know that and prepare accordingly.
A thief is going to steal car wheels, weapons, tools, electronics that seem resellable, gold and jewelry, things of immediate value to sell or trade for most likely drugs. Quick cash.
Fail fast and fail forward. Don't be afraid to start, be afraid of looking back having never done anything. Regret is poison.
Learn what the pareto principle is and live by it. Be efficient.
When life gets hard focus on what's in front of you not on the world, ideology, news, thats all distraction. Learn to stay in the moment, what's right here, right now, infront of you.
Cherish loved ones. Focus on your health now. Your health can be gone at a moments notice, life is about balance. Every action has a reaction.
Focus on your strengths not your weaknesses. You have infinite weaknesses. Your strengths will be your lynchpin at times.
Always be curious. Don't lose the will to learn and ask questions. Knowledge is everything.
Always stay moving physically that is biggest key to health diet and exercise and good sleep. Stay doing something productive. Being idle is the devils playground.
Listen to your gut during times of uncertainty. Trust very little of others. Words mean nothing. Actions never lie.
I have monetized all of my hobbies it is something I naturally do. I have been self employed my entire life aside from odd jobs.
Does it kill the passion? Somewhat but not in the way your thinking. That being said it opens a lot of doors to dive deeper into your passion and interest as well if you keep the flame alive. It's all goal orientated.
What kills the hobbies are the pressure to perform even when your back is against the wall. Like when you have bills to pay and you rely on that money to survive that is what kills the drive for the hobbies. You start to do things for money, rather than pursuing things based on interest. This will taint your drive if you let it. But if you have strong enough passions it won't kill them outright, more of burn you out on them until you grow in revenue passed the needs of life or give up and go back to a job. Once you make enough to survive fully at your own comfort level. Then that opens you up mentally again for the joy because the pressure is mostly gone and then you can utilize the monetary gains to reinvest in the hobby you love but on a grander scale, it opens your mind to options/dreams.
You shift from what you have to do, to what you can do.
They should not us LUkS and instead use veracrypt for folders and files. That way if any repartitioning or modification is needed it's simple in gparted or GNOME disks on mint.
Source is been there and done that. Luks partitions are not easily resized.
I vote against immutables. Been there and it's not if something breaks it's when. I had to completely reinstall my kiniote. Trust. Go with Mint LMDE to be exact skip ubuntus bullshit.
I've got a bad right click on my 570 and it's years old. That's part of what caused me to get a 575. That and work I needed something good rather than a traditional mouse.
Edit: get a 575 you will make concessions but given your ergo trust me it's worth doing. Retire those 570s!
I was like you. Both are great your over thinking it. 575 I think has a slightly less rounded curve but trust its nothing to worry about. I swap between both with ease. Matter of fact. I love the 570 sometimes but my hand arch started to get worn out after hours of use. 575 has less of an arch and relaxes the wrist a tad more.
Encrypt your data period. A burglar isn't going to worry about your home lab unless it's oozing money from the look of it.
Your family and friends will be the ones to snoop your data. So know that and prepare accordingly.
A thief is going to steal car wheels, weapons, tools, electronics that seem resellable, gold and jewelry, things of immediate value to sell or trade for most likely drugs. Quick cash.