Thanks, but I'm an idiot. I dug around a little and realized I was low on disk space and running a badly outdated version. All good now.
drhoopoe
Do some searches on "kiosk" software. That's the general term of art for machines that are intended to run a single program/interface. As for distros, you'll want something light and easy to maintain, ideally with automatic updates. Debian's an obvious pick. Alpine could be great for something like this. Gentoo could be awesome too, but there's a serious learning curve involved.
Did it currently have windows installed? If so, have you turned off secure boot and fastboot?
If you've done all that already, then maybe try adding nomodeset to the kernel parameters in grub. You can find instructions by searching how to set kernel parameters. It's fairly easy, but kind of a pain to explain.
Seems a little on the nose.
Broken clock and all that
Evenly spaced and no more than 4 feet away.
I wouldn’t mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken
But isn't that every linux forum?
Yep, I've got a stack of 5-10 year old optiplexes (optiplexi?) running proxmox.
Yes, you can use it fully offline.
To back it up I believe you'd just need to backup your .pass
and .gnupg
directories.
I haven't used keepass, but the entry from the archwiki should give you a good idea of usage, and it also lists some helper apps: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pass
In the US, many public universities allow access to the public, including use of computer terminals that will allow access to paid databases. In many cases, you could bring in a usb stick and save copies of articles downloaded from such databases, or at worst you could pay a small fee to print some stuff out. AFAIK, that kind of access varies state by state though, so you need to call university libraries near you to find out.
Lol, a lot, but not that many. Mostly docker shit filling up /var from containers I'd tried running or run for a while and got bored of. Just needed a good
docker prune -a --volumes
.