Sweet, hadn't even occurred to me to look for that so I'm glad you pointed it out!

My situation is remarkably similar to yours down to the language, and I happen to have been considering a US keyboard as well so that's disheartening to hear. I have nothing to add right now but will let you know if I come across anything helpful!

Now that's quite an interesting NixOS setup, I'm especially intrigued by the tmpfs root portion. The link you provided was a great read, and I'll keep this and honestly most of what you've described in mind for when I mess with NixOS again.

Yeah, that's how I'm reading it as well

I'm guessing symlinking the compatdata folder to a Linux friendly filesystem, like Valve recommends here, would probably fix issues like that. I'm sure there must be edge cases but, in my admittedly not extensive experience, I haven't encountered any myself.

Yeah, sounds like a best of both worlds situation where you wouldn't have to decide whether to suspend or hibernate anymore

I'm mostly an outsider to the whole Touhou phenomenon apart from enjoying the music but it's always nice to see games that would otherwise be doujin only available through official channels. And on release, no less! Cool stuff for sure.
The lukewarm reviews don't make it seem like a great entry on its own so perhaps not the best starting point for someone who's casually interested but still, I'll definitely take a better look later.

Right, that's a bummer. I'm guessing you don't have enough access to turn off your router's DHCP server so pihole can take over properly? If that's the case, I guess you'd have to get another router and make your own subnet off the ISP one or something along those lines so you have more control, that's kinda what my setup looks like at the moment.

I don't have a guide at hand but I basically just set a wildcard DNS rewrite on AdGuard Home so that *.my.domain redirects to the IP running my reverse proxy. Since AdGuard is set up at the router level, everything goes through it so the proxy handles everything from there.
I can share specifics after I get home in a few hours if you need a hand, feel free to reach out.

+1 for this, add Tailscale DNS or similar on top plus a local redirect and you have easy access to it all through the same unified FQDN no matter if local, remote through an exposed Caddy, or remote through your VPN.

Interesting setup, I can definitely see myself giving that a go as a nice middle ground between traditional distros and full-on NixOS/Guix.

Ah, I feel that was mostly just on me if I'm being honest but much appreciated! And yeah, Big Picture has been a bit buggy ever since they brought the Deck UI over and I'm glad we have more options now.