The benefit of the magnetic breakaway is that it works at any angle, which is a reduced risk in certain theft scenarios. In any case, we have a guide on how you can build one yourself here:
I doubt frying the motherboard would have any impact on the irrecoverability of the data on the disk. If you want to do this properly, we have an anti-forensics “self-destruct” trigger that wipes the FDE (encryption keys from the) LUKS header:
I’m not aware of any sites tracking our warrant canaries, but there are standards for machine-readable warrant canaries to make this easier
Edit: oh, it looks like the EFF, Calyx Institute, Freedom of the Press Foundation, NYU Law, the Berkman Center, and a few other orgs run a service that monitors warrant canaries called Canary Watch
This update from 2016 says they were monitoring 70 org’s canaries
Edit 2: oh, looks like they silently shut it down some years ago :( well, we adopted the autocanary standard from FLM linked-above, so it shouldn’t be hard for some canary observatory to consume and track our canaries.