Mint does come with a lot of preinstalled software, but I wouldn’t consider it bloated. It’s stuff that most people will use. The MATE and Xfce versions are fairly light.

With Linux, you can get 15+ years out of a PC if you got decent hardware.

It still shows up because the windows boot partition is still there.

If you’re using grub, you can add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to /etc/default/grub and run update-grub. That will remove other operating systems from the grub boot menu.

If you install a few Flatpak packages, it will fill it up quickly. You could also make a games directory.

If the computer has a serial port, you can use SLIP to get an internet connection. Then you could host a simple website from it. It will run at dial-up speeds and you may have to write your own software though.

I would delete the first two partitions and put a new partition there to use as /home. Then expand / where /home was.

It’s easy to expand a partition towards the end of the disk. I would not recommend expanding one towards the start of the disk. That would have to move all of the data. It’s slow and much more likely to cause problems.

I wouldn’t suggest messing with a boot partition unless you are comfortable using a live boot disk to reinstall the bootloader if something goes wrong.

Yes, both KeePassDX and KeePass2Android support TOTP.

There are a couple Android ports of KeePass. They are open source and won’t care if your phone is rooted.

That’s why I pirate unless it’s DRM free and doesn’t require an internet connection after downloading the installer.

If you’re buying a PC for OPNsense or pfSense, look for one with Intel NICs. Realtek NICs tend to be unreliable.

Cloudflare won’t even allow you to use your own nameserver. Avoid them like the plague.

If the RAM was cheap and performed well, I would buy it. I wouldn’t trust a no name hard drive though.

This is why you never buy a digital copy of anything unless it’s a DRM free download.

It might stop some depending on the block lists you have. You would have to set a firewall rule to block all other DNS, DoT and DoH servers so nothing can bypass your block lists. Blocking DoH servers is hard because it looks just like HTTPS. Even then, it could still connect to a hard coded IP address instead of doing a DNS lookup.

A better option would be to use an IPS to detect and block suspicious connections from the TV. Ideally, you would just keep it offline though.

Why does a car need an app anyways? I assume it’s just a way for it to vacuum up more personal data from your phone.

That’s just a cell phone packed in a laptop case. It only has 8GB of non upgradable RAM.

I didn’t have a computer with a DVD drive until around 2006. By then I would just use the free WiFi at the library to pirate whatever I wanted.

They can’t turn on a webcam that doesn’t exist. I have no intention of connecting one to my desktops.

It could cause data corruption, but it wouldn’t damage the sectors. The reallocation is done by the firmware in the hard drive when the sector is not able to store data.

A bad SATA cable can cause the link errors, but it wouldn’t cause sectors to be reallocated.