Condolences about your buddy, friend.

I’m interested. Please keep me in the loop if this gets any traction soon, but I can also look into getting a VPS going for a persistent server once I have some IRL things taken care of.

Unfortunately yes. Somehow the buzz around it has resulted in a decent number of e.g. YouTube channels with dev content talking about how great they think it is, which is bad for the discourse IMO

Multiplexers like tmux offer additional features beyond tiling, like the ability to reopen sessions after closing the original terminal window