We are trying to solve computer/rocket-age problems with a caveman brain. If we don’t start genetic engineering humans soon i’d wager we’ll eradicate ourselves before we colonize other planets and stars.

First time i’ve heard of it. I’ve just checked it out looks like it’ll be my new goto-site, thanks :)

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

I use library genisis. Great for scientific papers and adequate for fiction.

Bonk !!

You might be interested in projects like https://openhab.org, or https://mycroft.ai

I have tinkered with mycroft in the past and it was kinda finnicky at the time, but overal a great idea(an assistant like google or alexa but privacy oriented). A colleague of mine uses openhab for everything but security(his wife objected to that lol).

For starters i’d recommend some single board computer like the a raspberrypi, a speaker and a microphone and maybe try one of these (https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/9-best-raspberry-pi-smart-home-software-options) out yourself.

I have a yubikey and use their pam-module for 2FA on sudo and ssh. Took a bit of time to configure, but now it works like charm: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/YubiKey#Linux_user_authentication_with_PAM