The Framework laptop the fox talks about is also a metal case. With captive screws and easily replaceable/upgradeable components - and several generations of upgrades already available to build trust that they really do intend to support that upgradeabiliy over time.

My solution: Both

Opnsense should support HA. If you’re using a vlan-capable switch, you can plug your ISP device into the switch and connext it to just these two machines.

By having a physical device, you get the stability advantages of a dedicated device. You can also test upgrades on the virtual router and roll back to the physical if needed. When something eventually goes wrong with the physical device (all hardware fails eventually), you fail over to the proxmox instance until you replace it and don’t have to rebuild the config from scratch.

To be even more explicit on the last point, that means regularly updating OpenWRT and all your containers, not just the server’s base OS

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Vested interest? Literally vested stock options. Well, by now they’ve already been used to purchase stock.

Gonna have to disagree with #3 - stopping Vim is not necessary for this. There’s the builtin :! command.

No, you wee right the first time. It’s 27 times as big, or 26 times bigger

Favorite would be a highly customized zsh.

fizsh (not fish) is what I actually end up using, as I can’t be bothered to copy that config around and retune it for each machine. Gives me the syntactic sugar of zsh with common default options on by default, an OK default prompt, and doesn’t break POSIX assumptions like fish. Also Installs quickly from the package manager without needing to run through the zsh setup each time - unlike oh-my-zsh. And if I still need customization, all the zsh options are still there.

Notify the maintainer of the open source tool - they’re in the best position to push for compliance. They have the power to revoke the company’s license.