I’m running msi on a couple systems with no issues.

If you have a car Lubelogger is a solid maintenance tracker.

Not worrying temps for most stuff. If you have mechanical HDDs you may want to check those specifically.

I’ve run AMD, Intel, and Nvidia on linux and I would say my intel experience was by far the best. I use an a380 in my server for transcoding, and I had an a750 in my desktop but switched to a b580. AMD gets the graphics stuff right, but intel does the graphics and compute right on linux where AMD ROCM is a major pain in the ass. It may not be great if you do tons of gaming, but it works quite well for me.

Either or both could also be accomplished with thy setup through encrypted partition or flash drives or just manually encrypted files plus manual backups. Personally, I’d just use kde vaults for ease of use.

Been using airvpn for at least a year now (2? Maybe 3, idk…) Wait I checked it’s been about 2 years. OK, anyway yeah they’re my go to recommendation for anyone moderately technical.

If you haven’t solved this yet I would try using the novo button again with your camera ready to get the text and see if it’s useful. Beyond that, I’m not sure how to get into the bios. Assuming it still boots and doesn’t have a soldered wifi card you could always get an AX210 for fairly cheap off of ebay. Should have good linux support.

Edit: Nvm the card suggestion, I see your comment on that.

Well, waydroid exists and pixel bootloaders are still unlockable. Plus fairphone specs aren’t too bad so it’s plausible in the future.

Usually just cloning someone else’s Mac is enough, though you can try to target a wifi coffee maker or whatever to cause less problems for others.

You’re right, my bad. They are stealing that amount from each creator, in fact.

Ya know, if you assume each one of those is a person who would otherwise pay $100 a month for all the streaming services, then they are costing the streaming services about $259,200,000,000,000 each year. /s

Alternatively, if you have the money, you can just buy a new drive and hold on to your old one. For a while I actually installed linux onto a flash drive and used that. (Not a live boot to be clear)

Also the expectation that you will use all the same software. They mentioned a screenshot tool not being supported. That is something that will obviously be os specific.

A bit of both for small decisions. I’d trust it with little things and for more important stuff it could work for the trick where you flip a coin and figure out which thing you actually wanted by gauging your reaction to the result.

Nvm the hyperlink had but and I didn’t see.

Server

It’s down for me.

It’s obfuscated but not officially blocked. Their site is asahilinux.org. It’s not worth getting a macbook for yet imo , but it’s still super impressive, especially the graphics drivers. There are issues with Mac’s built in security stuff but that just means the fingerprint reader and probably some other stuff doesn’t work.

An interesting way that I don’t know of being implemented is a donation system where you donate to a feature request / issue and whoever implements / patches it gets it, and a “tax” so that some percentage of every donation can go to maintenance, server costs, etc.

I’m saving this post. I’ve managed it in the past but even then I never knew how.