Thats the dream! haha Glad you could do it

I have the same problem. Got a teaching job while in the middle of my phd and now i just end up doing preparations for the following classes, grading exams and so on, and never get around to working on my phd. Ive found no good solution though. If I work on my phd I leave my students waiting and with more improvised classes, if i work on material for the students I forget about my phd subject.

Ive tried using an app called superproductivity, which is on fdroid and works fine, but it didnt help me as much as i hoped...

Send help :( Also got long term personal stuff id like to work on, like at least an hour a week, but theres always something urgent from work that shows up and takes my time or leaves me too tired.

You can also share access to your phones entire filesystem with kde connect, so you can browse you phones storage from dolphin as if ot was connected through usb and copy entire folders to/from you phone.

Maybe kubuntu has some weird firewall default settings. When i tried using opensuse some years ago, it took me quite some time to figure out that it was its firewall that wasnt letting me use my printer and some other stuff i cant remember

I have an instance on my phone running 24/7 which does the bridge. But i dont use much storage, i mainly work with text files, so the pc at work syncs with my phone, and when i get home my own pc gets the files from my phone immediatly. Its been working really well for years for me.

Its good, i started using it because it allows you to inverts the colors, so you can turn your pdfs into white text on black background.

Id like to know too. But I think any alternative wouldnt be as complete and easy to use, unfortunately. Im thinking of just setting up a website to post info/resources for the students, i dont actually use the homework assignment tools of google classroom, theire just not that practical.

Theres SiYuan that is open source and is in the same spirit as notion, obsidian,... (regarding usability)

Youtube is part of a larger company that makes money in various ways and does profit a lot despite the high costs of youtube. Its existence serves a purpose to google, otherwise they would have already extinguished it or changed the way it operates. To see if its sustainable or not you need to look broadly into the system in which youtube is inserted.