Im blue da ba dee da ba daa, Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa -Eiffel 65

Nope, just an open port. Works directly with public IP. I guess if some ISPs IP lease time is short and they keep changing it regularly, it might become a hassle.

The horse is already dead.

Thanks, I could check it out on holidays. Functional Wayland would be cool. I'm a bit skeptic on the qt migration (I had almost continuous issues when the qt4 -> qt5 migration was ongoing)

All the wind on the planet now blows to the opposite direction

What's that?

I actually have :D But seriously, alright then. Maybe it's just me.

Yes dmesg prints out kernel messages and it resets every boot. So any driver crashes etc should be there. https://superuser.com/questions/565927/differences-in-var-log-syslog-dmesg-messages-log-files

I've been selfhosting searxng as well. I'm very happy with the search results once I configured it. Public searxng instances work very well for me too.

Yes but their price is kinda steep

Same. i liked the no-nonsense approach.