I would try it in a VM first. But maybe you are braver than I.

You made me very curious about NixOS and now I’ll have to take a closer look at it. The second to last sentence did it. Thanks

Probably a very stupid question: Could Turkey’s Internet censorship (like DNS blocking) have any effect on the alert system?

They are specific to the kernels delivered with Ubuntu because of changes introduced by Canonical in OverlayFS:

Source: Ubuntu Website