feat: rootless podman, session hardening, boot stability, sidebar fix

Rootless podman migration (TASK-11):
- Remove sudo from all podman calls in PodmanClient + 8 backend files
- Remove sudo from all podman/docker calls in deploy script
- Restore full systemd security hardening: NoNewPrivileges,
  RestrictAddressFamilies, MemoryDenyWriteExecute, RestrictRealtime,
  RestrictNamespaces, RestrictSUIDSGID, SystemCallFilter, ProtectSystem=strict
- Enable loginctl linger for rootless container persistence
- Remove Ollama from auto-deploy (marketplace-only)

Session & auth hardening:
- Increase MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS 20→50 (prevents eviction storms)
- Debounced 401 redirect in rpc-client.ts (prevents redirect storms)

Boot stability:
- optimize-debian.sh: adds chrony, swap, removes policy-rc.d
- deploy script: pre-restart chrony + swap setup
- ISO build: chrony package, swap file creation
- BootScreen: no longer clears localStorage (prevents splash replay)
- RootRedirect: sole owner of localStorage clearing on server ready

UI fixes:
- Sidebar opacity default changed from 0→visible (fixes missing sidebar
  after page-persistence login without entrance animation)
- Console.log/error wrapped in import.meta.env.DEV guards
- Remove unused route import from RootRedirect

Beta tracking:
- CLAUDE.md: beta freeze protocol added
- MASTER_PLAN.md: TASK-11, TASK-17, phase structure
- BETA-PROGRESS.md: initial tracking doc
- Tagged v1.2.0-alpha.1 as pre-rootless baseline

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

neode-ui/src/views/AppSession.vue

@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ async function handleNostrRequest(event: MessageEvent) {
   if (!source) return
   const storedIdentity = getStoredIdentity()
   const identityId = storedIdentity?.id || null
-  console.log(`[NIP-07] ${method} identityId=${identityId} storedPubkey=${storedIdentity?.nostr_pubkey?.slice(0, 12) || 'none'}`)
+  if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.log(`[NIP-07] ${method} identityId=${identityId} storedPubkey=${storedIdentity?.nostr_pubkey?.slice(0, 12) || 'none'}`)
 
   try {
     let result: unknown
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ async function handleNostrRequest(event: MessageEvent) {
       // Use stored nostr_pubkey directly if available (avoids RPC call that may 401)
       if (storedIdentity?.nostr_pubkey) {
         result = storedIdentity.nostr_pubkey
-        console.log('[NIP-07] getPublicKey from stored identity:', (result as string).slice(0, 12))
+        if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.log('[NIP-07] getPublicKey from stored identity:', (result as string).slice(0, 12))
       } else if (identityId) {
         const res = await rpcClient.call<{ nostr_pubkey: string }>({ method: 'identity.get', params: { id: identityId } })
         result = res.nostr_pubkey
@@ -610,13 +610,13 @@ async function handleNostrRequest(event: MessageEvent) {
         result = res.nostr_pubkey
       }
     } else if (method === 'signEvent') {
-      console.log(`[NIP-07] signEvent kind=${params.event?.kind} using identity=${identityId || 'node-default'}`)
+      if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.log(`[NIP-07] signEvent kind=${params.event?.kind} using identity=${identityId || 'node-default'}`)
       if (identityId) {
         result = await rpcClient.call<unknown>({ method: 'identity.nostr-sign', params: { id: identityId, event: params.event } })
       } else {
         result = await rpcClient.call<unknown>({ method: 'node.nostr-sign', params: { event: params.event } })
       }
-      console.log('[NIP-07] signEvent OK')
+      if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.log('[NIP-07] signEvent OK')
     } else if (method === 'getRelays') { result = {} }
     else if (method === 'nip04.encrypt') { result = (await rpcClient.call<{ ciphertext: string }>({ method: 'identity.nostr-encrypt-nip04', params: { id: identityId || undefined, pubkey: params.pubkey, plaintext: params.plaintext } })).ciphertext }
     else if (method === 'nip04.decrypt') { result = (await rpcClient.call<{ plaintext: string }>({ method: 'identity.nostr-decrypt-nip04', params: { id: identityId || undefined, pubkey: params.pubkey, ciphertext: params.ciphertext } })).plaintext }
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ async function handleNostrRequest(event: MessageEvent) {
     else { throw new Error(`Unsupported NIP-07 method: ${method}`) }
     source.postMessage({ type: 'nostr-response', id, result }, '*')
   } catch (err) {
-    console.error(`[NIP-07] ${method} FAILED:`, err instanceof Error ? err.message : err)
+    if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.error(`[NIP-07] ${method} FAILED:`, err instanceof Error ? err.message : err)
     source.postMessage({ type: 'nostr-response', id, error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : 'Unknown error' }, '*')
   }
 }

neode-ui/src/views/Dashboard.vue

@@ -982,10 +982,11 @@ function dismissNotification(id: string) {
 
 .sidebar-inner {
   overflow: hidden;
-  opacity: 0;
 }
 
+/* Only hide sidebar content when doing the login entrance animation */
 .sidebar-animate .sidebar-inner {
+  opacity: 0;
   animation: sidebar-inner-draw 0.7s cubic-bezier(0.25, 0.46, 0.45, 0.94) forwards;
   animation-delay: 6.1s;
 }

neode-ui/src/views/RootRedirect.vue

@@ -14,12 +14,11 @@
 
 <script setup lang="ts">
 import { ref, onMounted } from 'vue'
-import { useRouter, useRoute } from 'vue-router'
+import { useRouter } from 'vue-router'
 import { isOnboardingComplete } from '@/composables/useOnboarding'
 import BootScreen from '@/components/BootScreen.vue'
 
 const router = useRouter()
-const route = useRoute()
 const showBootScreen = ref(false)
 
 async function quickHealthCheck(): Promise<boolean> {
@@ -66,20 +65,24 @@ async function proceedToApp() {
 }
 
 function onServerReady() {
-  // Clear flags so splash intro plays on reload
+  if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.log('[RootRedirect] onServerReady — setting flag and reloading')
   localStorage.removeItem('neode_intro_seen')
   localStorage.removeItem('neode_onboarding_complete')
-  // Reload with ?intro=1 so we know to skip boot and let App.vue handle splash
-  window.location.href = '/?intro=1'
+  sessionStorage.setItem('archipelago_from_boot', '1')
+  window.location.href = '/'
 }
 
 onMounted(async () => {
   const devMode = import.meta.env.VITE_DEV_MODE
 
-  // Coming back from boot screen — do nothing, let App.vue's SplashScreen take over
-  if (route.query.intro === '1') {
-    // Clean the URL without navigating
-    window.history.replaceState({}, '', '/')
+  // Coming back from boot screen — let App.vue's SplashScreen take over
+  if (sessionStorage.getItem('archipelago_from_boot') === '1') {
+    return
+  }
+
+  // Splash already completed this session — go to app
+  if (sessionStorage.getItem('archipelago_from_splash') === '1') {
+    proceedToApp()
     return
   }
 
@@ -89,7 +92,7 @@ onMounted(async () => {
     return
   }
 
-  // Boot dev mode — always show boot screen
+  // Boot dev mode — always show boot screen (first load only)
   if (devMode === 'boot') {
     showBootScreen.value = true
     return

neode-ui/src/views/Settings.vue

@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ async function saveServerName() {
   try {
     await rpcClient.call({ method: 'server.set-name', params: { name } })
   } catch (e) {
-    console.error('Failed to rename server:', e)
+    if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.error('Failed to rename server:', e)
   }
   editingServerName.value = false
 }