These are the ones I use most actively, on my FreedomBox:

• bepasty for moving around or sharing temporary files
• Quassel for staying connected to IRC servers
• Radicale for synchronizing my calendar and tasks.
• Syncthing for files I want to have available between my laptop, desktop, phone.
• Tiny Tiny RSS for following blogs.

Cozy Grove or Wingspan, both pretty chill games with nice music.

Civ 5…I have a habit of not actually finishing a game, so I’m trying to push myself through a complete game.

I don’t get it, what is arranging the terminals, if not a tiling WM?

The Jitsi link for the BoF is semi-private, to avoid spam. If you would like to participate, please send me a message, and I will share the link with you.

Have you considered self-hosting matrix-synapse?