I'm finding very little about the initial infection vector. How does it infect a machine?

Also port 53/udp is an interesting choice for communicating. Many enterprises redirect that to their internal dns.

Start a no server demo here and you can try Actual out yourself:
https://demo.actualbudget.org/

That way you can try out the Starting fresh steps for real or go through their Tour interactively instead of just reading:
https://actualbudget.org/docs/getting-started/starting-fresh/
https://actualbudget.org/docs/tour/

Women of both parties were less likely to support a return to traditional gender roles than men. Support for a return to traditional gender roles was highest among Republican men at 87 percent, followed by Republican women at 79 percent. Democratic women were the least likely to support a return to traditional gender roles — 21 percent do, compared with 26 percent of Democratic men.

Yikes, now that's a culture shock to me. That even one in five democratic women want to return to having to slave away at home with no economic independence and having to rely on the goodwill of their spouse and forcing the spouse to be solely responsible for all their economical needs for that matter.
I want an equal partner, that's for sure.

I never recommended the Intel N chips though. :)

A cheap N100 or N305 mitx with more ethernet and sata ports already attached is one thing, but I wouldn't wanna risk warranty hell with more money on the line.
Considering you are gonna add a dgpu I would look at a low tdp desktop cpu such as ryzen 7600/9600 from a trusted store instead.
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/topton-warranty-practices.40421/

The battery recalls on 4a and 6a for one, I believe you get more RAM, better camera and most importantly better QC on an 8 Pro compared to 9a if the past still holds true.

I would go for an older Pixel Pro before a newer budget version that ends with a in the model name.
https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

00:00 Virtual Files Systems Improved
02:03 CRC CPU Arch Updates
05:44 Less Network Latencies
08:03 Handling Data Loss on File Systems
10:01 Fix for 1993 ELF Binaries
11:24 Apple Silicon Updates in Kernel
13:02 Zeroing out SSD Improvements
14:34 Mobile File Systems
15:50 WIFI 7 and Networking Stack
17:12 BCacheFS Kernel Updates & Drama

Reviews on Steam makes it seem promising, but I'll wait for a gog.com release before buying.

And in more languages than just Swedish too.
English version of the brochure.
More in English here: https://www.msb.se/en/advice-for-individuals/