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If you never pay for music, artists won’t be able to make new music. Where possible buy as directly as possible from the artist, e.g., through bandcamp.

I use logcheck which should be available with your distro. It’s simple but pretty dumb though. It works by scanning your system logs, excludes any pre-configured regexps (it already comes with defaults for many of the most common logs), and sends you an email if there are any unexpected logs. I did have to add a bunch of custom regexps to exclude additional logs specific to my setup. But I just did this by adding new regexps whenever I got a logcheck email that I deemed irrelevant so not terribly difficult.

The end result is that I get an email with logs whenever anything unexpected happens. For example, I get emails whenever any SSH session is established (including my own) which gives me the confidence that if something starts going down, I should be able to see it.

Why not use KeepassXC? It’s a completely local encrypted db but it integrates with cloud storage apps like nextcloud for sync. It has plugins for integration with Firefox and KeepassAndroid is pretty smooth on the current Android OS.

I buy music, at least CD quality. I might splash out for 24-bits if given the choice (only because it seems to be standard on Bandcamp so for consistency I aim for the same in other stores), but not for > 48 kHz.

I upload to my server for archival purposes, but will convert to mp3 to sync to my devices. I buy CD quality poorly for archival purposes. I can’t tell the difference. Plus I have navidrome and I can stream, but having my entire library available at all times, even when offline, is very important to me.

I buy, in order of preference, from Bandcamp, 7digital, and only as a last resort from Qobuz. If even Qobuz doesn’t have something then I go on Amazon to buy the CD. I hate Qobuz ever since they removed the download all button. I remind them of it with the feedback form with every purchase. It was the reason I will prefer 7digital over Qobuz. I don’t know why you say 7digital is dead. They have up to date titles for the music I care about (metal). The only thing I dislike about 7digital is the http (no https) download, but I’d rather risk that than support Qobuz with its dark patterns.