You could host gitea locally on a spare computer and use that to store you dotfiles.

Check /var/log/syslog, dmesg, and /var/log/auth.log

Like the others suggest, try setting up ssh access so you can see what’s happening.

If you use ssh and login, I’d recommend using top or htop and maybe diskhogs and see what’s up

It’s an immutable distro that leverages containers to allow you to install packages from different distros. Further, it provides friendly tools and guis to make this easier than it would otherwise be

Neato