The v1.2.4 release might fix up some of your issues:

This release adds TCP fallback to the DNS stub resolver, fixing the longstanding inability to query large DNS records and incompatibility with recursive nameservers that don’t give partial results in truncated UDP responses. It also makes a number of other bug fixes and improvements in DNS and related functionality, including making both the modern and legacy API results differentiate between NODATA and NxDomain conditions so that the caller can handle them differently.

Not that it matters much if you’ve already migrated away to a libc distribution.

emacs with magit and meow are just amazing efficiency add-ons to my workflow. when your tools just get out of your way and keep you in the flow, it’s much easier to stay productive.

CBC doesn’t seem to have a feed for just Vancouver news.

It might be a bit of overload just pulling things from the BC feed and dumping that here: https://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada-britishcolumbia.xml

migadu has been pretty solid the last few years and they’ve got some great pricing on plans that’ll be sufficient to host an entire family.

Solidigm (ex-Intel) apparently has a P41 Plus 2230 1TB model that’s decent (p/n: SSDPFPNU010TZ01).

I’ve got a 12th gen running linux and fan noise is pretty significant when I’m pushing the laptop, but it’s usually silent when I’m not pushing it.

Compared to a Macbook Air M1/M2 the laptop is hot and noisy, but really I haven’t found it to be any worse than other non-Apple machines that I’ve used (Lenovo and Acer included).

I expect the Ryzen machines that will be released later this year will be better at keeping the heat down, but that’s hard to at this point.