NixOS unstable. I like being able to define my system as code. I also don’t need that high of stability and would rather have more up to date software in most cases. I have thought about using stable releases for things like basic http and DNS servers but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

My encryption key dies with me and nobody will be bothered to save my drives and crack them.

Gcompat is not very effective but most open source software works with minimal patching.

I already used desec.io for my domains back when I had static IP blocks at home so I just used the dyndns api with ddclient to update them automatically for my dynamic IP.