Why do ISPs put in the extra effort to make their service shittier? What benefit do they gain from forcing more load to their DNS servers?

I’ve never heard of it either, but I came to the same conclusion as you

I don’t know if this applies to all phones, but my Android phone can act as hotspot while connected to a regular AP, and it does NAT so it appears as one device

Run a WireGuard VPN on your server and only forward its port (only UDP is needed) to your server.

I made my shell (fish) auto-delete invocations of rm from my history when I run them so I never get autocomplete from past rms

https://github.com/yonatan8070/dotfiles/blob/1f3edcedbc6863317fe6eb4df8acb14123fcb00a/fish/.config/fish/functions/prompt.fish#L25C1-L25C1

At the moment I’m doing primarily hopes and prayers

Exactly what I do except my master folder is ~

Wouldn’t recommend running production services on windows.