Be careful if there’s a public IP address. I think some operating systems even include IPv6 with 0.0.0.0 so that if there’s a public one assigned this might open it up to the world.

I have a mini PC that has been barreling through NVMe disks but Alpine Linux’ “usb” install mode just wasn’t great either. So I use a “sys” install mode (traditional) on an NVMe disk but have directories like /var/log, /tmp, etc. mounted as zram disks with Zstandard compression. It’s been pretty fantastic honestly.

For me it’s also the same with “hubby”

I’d just add both Gmail and another email account to a desktop email client, then simply drag the emails from one provider to the other.