

Congrats!
Compiling your own kernel is very intimidating at the beginning and one learns a lot after plunging down that rabbit hole
After some time it gets pretty straightforward. Just don’t forget to enable the modules for your drive and filesystem (it has been a while, maybe that’s not needed anymore) and the rest you can always fix with another compilation
That part where you got stuck even after switching hardware: yikes. I wouldn’t expect that












Domain registrars do id verification now? I’m also in Europe and the mail is only for sending me the reminder to pay