Not the answer to your question, but just something to note with Amazon. They stock many high order generic products, and individual store sellers can list a product as their own, amazon will then part pick from the bin to fulfill the order.
This often means the brand of the store front is irrelevant to the product you receive. It can also mean stock rotates and the next order you have is almost identical but not quite.

It can also occasional mean amazon part picker grabs the wrong part when you order a well known brand, as they either just eyeballed the grab or somebody dumped the wrong stock parts in the bin.

Openmediavault on Mac mini https://youtu.be/t_mdBjwV2uws

Baddies will be shooting at the battery area. This will get interesting as a “fire fight”

The isolation can be anywhere, they are pointing out the stages. Linux community is not immune.

It seems like you are over thinking it a bit. Just let it be more fluid, there is no right or wrong way. My wife often buys gifts for my family, the given is its from both of us. But she is out and about more often and spots things people would like, so she’s the main shopper.

The vulnerable don’t think to ask and want to help.The scammers also cry to disguise their voice in snivels.

They called my mom but she is still sharp. She gave them a good rant about being a loser and they should find a better path in life instead of taking the easy road of preying on old folks.

Yeah, all good choices.

I have openSUSE on my main machine, with SELinux. They are more security focused by default than some other distros.

Firewall on by default, SELinux enforcing by default, sudo needs root password-not just passwordless or same user password like some distros. There’s a YAST GUI hardening App so you can see what passes best security practise and what needs attention. Zypper has various patch commands so you see a list of what patches are available, their critical/recommended status, and weather they are installed or unneeded for your setup. Also ability to apply patches by CVE numbers.

SELinux can be frustrating initially, until you get used to how it works. I.e. I setup shared network folders but couldn’t see data in some folders, it was because copying files into the folder to be served doesn’t automatically give access over the share, there needs to be SEL policy assigned to the files which you establish the policy and then can apply to all files in the folder.

Taxes aren’t very high, what are you onabout? Mine have gone down over the years. Regulations keep people and the environment healthy, which saves people and the government money. You’ve been watching too much YouTube algorithm.

As for a recession proof job I don’t know if cars is it. When times are good people will spend money on car repair, when things are bad they will skip maintenance or DIY it, in order to pay rent or eat

Yes, I bought a rocketfish drive enclosure years back, so dropped a drive in that, and attached vias USB. Never had issues with it.

Assign as data drive in Openmediavault.

Openmediavault had some plugins and settings to set folders2ram so that the initial SDcard OS is writting to RAM instead of constant writes to the SDcard.

MicroOS is a decent choice, because it can cold boot off a configuration that uses ignition and combustion files. https://microos.opensuse.org/

And they have this file configurator so you don’t have to manually type all the syntax for your configs.

https://opensuse.github.io/fuel-ignition/edit

There are some sites dedicated to suggestions, or if you download the pi image burner tool it has a bunch of OS suggestions in the menu, like Pihole, Kodi media box, home assistant, etc.

I have a few running. One was setup as NAS and dlna music server using OpenMediaVault, one is a Volumio music player, my other one is Home assistant.

If you like old 80s-90s games there is RetroPi.

Too many choices really :)

I recognize its not a firewall like an iron door on your house blocking intruders, its more like the intruders don’t know your address. But it is a layer of security help as per this quote from CISCO

"NAT is a networking feature that can help reduce organizational security risk by hiding internal networks from public networks. By default, outside public IPs cannot communicate to an internal private IP host if there is no pre-existing NAT translation. So, NAT separates public and private networks.

Additionally, organizations that use NAT can implement and maintain multilayer security to block threats and protect against malicious activity. Your edge platform may be able to perform these essential security services."

I understand, I mean if we had Run Out they wouldn’t allow you 1 or 2 they’d be using CGNAT

Technically no. Every household here gets a unique public IP address with an option of turning on a second Public IP if you want it, so there are still IPs available.

https://cloudnetworking.pro/nat-as-a-security-measure-safeguarding-home-office-users-for-two-decades/

I realize its not 100% security but this article lists security benefits. https://cloudnetworking.pro/nat-as-a-security-measure-safeguarding-home-office-users-for-two-decades/

Yes 2FA is good, but most people default to their phone being the tool, but your phone number can be ported by scammers, or is often the target of theft

The solution to that is you purchase a backup key and enroll both when presented with the QR image for new OTP links, or add a secondary FIDO key on some accounts. Then you store the other one in a fireproof box.

Or you use a cryptographic key and print it out using shard tool. The shard tool lets you specify how many splits and how many required for a tebuild. It prints out the shards and you distribute to safe places or people. They are useless by themselves but if you scan in the required amount of pieces the tool will rebuild your cryptographic key

Use a yubikey hardware device, only the person with the hardware in hand and password can unlock your accounts