for running GUI app, I use flatapp which is a sort of a container / sandbox

why games get windows 3.1? Lot of steam games work well on Linux some even work better than on windows 10.

Windows 3.1 can not play any game developed in the past 20 years or so.

yes Syncthing should work just fine just make sure to only sync the save directory to minimize bandwidth. rsync is another common tool (at least for Linux) that does same job through command line. making it easier to automate the syncing tasks through bash scripts

I’d check https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search because most browsers including mozilla firefox rely on google safe browsing.

The other thing to point out is that if an attacker somehow got root access, they could install a so called “rootkit” and what it does it replacing some of the basic commands like top, ps, … with altered ones in order to hide the malware activities

few years ago I was contacted by digital ocean because they got reports about myserver being involved in ssh attack or something like that. Turns out my old drupal website had unpatched vulnersbilities that allowed attacker to access my system and use it for attacking others.

am not saying that to defend your provider they should have at least give you a warning. I an saying that to check yiur server as it may have been compromised

would be easier if you tell us which distro are you running mkinitfs on

Seems that the file /etc/mkinitfs/features.d/ is only linux alphine thing so creating it for another linux distro does nothing.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Initramfs_init

I would create a systemd service instead if your distro is using systemd https://www.slingacademy.com/article/ubuntu-how-to-create-a-custom-systemd-service/#Introduction

Edit: Sorry please ignore my comment. Your entire system is encrypted so that won’t work. I’ll see if there is another solution and post it

Edit2: Maybe you need to place the file here instead /usr/share/initramfs- tools/scripts/ ? https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man8/initramfs-tools.8.html

Now that upstream Linux is adopting Rust,

is it? From what I read the old kernel developers are really opposing it

Are you even able to access the bios ? Could it be a problem with your montor ?