I’ll do a little research into both and try work out if there is anything that could be done. I can’t promise anything in terms of promptness, this is a learning experience for me as well. So hopefully someone else has an answer for you :)

You are the real life LongtimeUser4.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

Unfortunately I can’t help more than that.

Edit: can you give the output of lsmod? I wonder if a hacked linux keyboard driver could help? I’m happy to give it a try if your interested in testing it.

They might mean gui-less. Log into a tty shell, use vim/emacs/editor of choice.

What CPU is it? 32bit only hardware would be ancient, I’m surprised you found something that old with a working battery?

I’m guessing they can rip the other end of the lock out of the wall tbh.

But realistically, theifs aren’t that sophisticated, they aren’t going to waste time trying to find and destroy the DVR, the will grab whatever valuables they can carry and pawn and leave as fast as possible.

The cameras are really just a deterant, they will move on to an easier house instead of risking it with mine.

Home security first of all, with cameras to deter thiefs. That alone mostly solves the problem, but I’m in a relatively safe area.

My “lab” is just a switch, nuc and unifi cloud key, and while they are warm in their closet, its not super hot.

I have a Kensington lock on the security camera box, but someone could theoretically yank that out of the wall.

The rest really isnt worth breaking in to steal.

When I used to have SSH on a nonstandard port, I got login failures from bots. It really depends on the bot and how aggressive they have set it up.

Could you share some links to the discussion? How would they even prevent those organisations from gaining access?

In theory, that is true, dual boot is good for trying stuff out. In practice, for a beginner who doesnt want to tinker, setting up dual boot is a nightmare.

I’ve dual booted since fedora 4, and it hasnt gotten any easier to get it setup. The best system for beginners was ubuntus weird “install as an app, then boot into it” thing, but that no longer exists.

Anything that works on the steam deck should also work exactly the same on your laptop, so yes, very good indication.

Installing on your old laptop is a good idea.

I just want to quickly say: You cannot permanently brick your PC with Linux. You may break your install, but you can just reinstall. Doing actual hardware damage is near impossible.

1. Possibly not. If your happy with W11, and the direction Microsoft is going, you can definitely just keep using it.

2. It depends. Packages from your distro, likely will work with no issues, but there is always the possibility that something gets shipped broken (which also exists for windows). Steam games, is generally good, and getting better all the time, but there are some games that definitely won’t work out of the box (or at all). Check your games: https://www.protondb.com/

To reiterate, it is impossible to do hardware damage, so you can always return back to windows if you decide its not for you. Maybe you’ll love Linux, maybe not, but its very safe to try.

11-12 should be well tested. 12-13 should be well tested. 11-13 may work, but you may be the tester.

I’d step through one at a time.

Bummer. You could get a cheap IoT light bulb/smart plug and ping it in a script, when it times out, start the shutdown. Could be a fun project.

Some (most?) UPSs have a way for them to communicate to the PC so that the PC can automatically cleanly shutdown. You should look into that if its available on your UPS.

Good luck!

Should be fine, the UUIDs are specified in the filesystem’s themselves. They shouldn’t change unless your filesystems get corrupted.

Upgrade away, should all work fairly flawlessly.

Yeah, it prevents booting on that motherboard, but they can just yank your disks and boot it on another motherboard.

Normally, a good bios password implementation shouldn’t reset with CMOS battery, but for yours it seems it does.

Bios passwords dont provide security at all. At most, mild theft prevention (that is trivially bypassed). If you want security, disk encryption is what you want.

Replace your CMOS battery, NTP is good to, but you really don’t want your CMOS freaking out.

Whats your goal? Your current network works presumably, what are you trying to achieve by upgrading? Faster network? Reliability? Expansion options?

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