What is?

What $10/yr vps are you using?

Interesting. I didn’t realize it was structured this way. I thought it was similar to NixOS for some reason.

the only OS to make sense really

How does it make more sense than Fedora KDE?

As @floofloof@lemmy.ca stated:

The only concerns are that you don’t get BIOS updates, and you don’t know for sure that there’s nothing nasty in the firmware.

Sure as long as security isn’t a concern

https://github.com/StarLabsLtd/coreboot

https://support.system76.com/articles/open-firmware-systems/

https://novacustom.com/coreboot-laptop/#get-yours-now

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Infos/Help-Support/Frequently-asked-questions/Coreboot-on-TUXEDO-Computers-devices.tuxedo

No and they don’t provide the source either. Makes you wonder what’s running in there.

Gonic is a nice alternative to Navidrome if you don’t need a web UI

rsync and another hard drive

Last I heard GPU accelerated video decoding didn’t work

Meh, Plex is a shady company and there’s tons of good, open source options available

Gonic server with Strawberry and D-Sub

Aren’t you just DoSing yourself at that point?

Requires a phone number to sign up. No thanks.

price competitive with a 4-year-old HP ultra small form factor

What’s the model number for that?

Pretty sure both of those search engines were commercial operations. Hell, Alta Vista was owned by Digital (a large tech corporation).

Reflash to Coreboot. Failing that, disable SecureBoot, disable splash screen, disable PXE boot, disable all other boot order options that might try and fail before hitting the OS drive, remove any RAID cards or network cards you’re not using. Remove any drives you’re not using.

FYI

Wow, you must be rich