Does anyone know how the amount of information is actually derived? The article just says “researchers calculated”

emacs

On my own system, but usually for remote work I use Vim as it’s easier to make usable

A good password manager encrypts your passwords with your own master password (and if you don’t trust them, use an open source one like Bitwarden)—so, even if it gets hacked, your passwords are not immediately compromised. You should take even more measures, like using 2FA such as your phone or a physical key, which basically makes you invincible. Way better than remembering passwords.

About that last point, you don’t really need to. Internet people like to show off their customized desktops and systems, but in reality using a “just works” distribution requires very little headache and time. Except for the time spent choosing it, that is

Squeal server even more

Not Welsh, but I think it’s a compound with successive elements ending and starting with ll

Use double n, that’s the archaic way of spelling that (tilde derives from n on top of another n)