Yes, rancher desktop works perfectly 👍🏻

Try https://plane.so/

You should try foodsharing, which is the non-commercialised original movement (in Europe).

https://foodsharing.de/

And what do you use to hide your traffic from your VPS provider? Or are there privacy focused providers out there?

Infinity

That’s also my setup (just with gitlab) and it works very well. Only I deploy to my own host. I use the gitlab web editor sometimes, to quickly write stuff down, it also works well if you’re used to writing markdown.