Just on this one device, or all devices connected to WiFi?

Why do you think your router is crashing? Is it overheating because you have stuff stacked on it maybe?

“…resigned with my own key…”

That’s a “no” from me, dawg. This isnt a distro, this a later revision you could easily just target and run. I don’t think you know exactly what constitutes an entire distribution.

Is it only happening with folders that are or have symlinks?

The distro doesn’t matter, the Desktop Environment does.

If they are used to MacOS and want something simple and “out of the way”, go with Gnome.

If they are used to Windows, go with KDE.

Fedora is probably the most straightforward to install and manage right now. You won’t need to “lock down” anything if you don’t give them sudo credentials.and just a regular user account.

Open Source projects get lots of free features for being on GitHub. Nobody else is beating that offering at current.

Linux is the most deployed OS on the planet, and the comparisons are not even close.

If you mean just for Desktop, it depends on what’s happening with the MacBook Neo, and if Microsoft gets their shit together and reverses course I suppose.

Look up elsewhere about the reputation Brother has with compatibility. Personal experience: never fails. That’s their jam.

Trust me. It is.

This has more details: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring/SecurityFAQ

The security model skews towards convenience versus absolute security, meaning automation is it’s goal, not perfect security. They use a reasonable amount of security to protect unauthorized access, meaning untrusted apps can’t access keys by default, and container apps only have selective access. AppArmor is supposed to be handling some DBUS interactions in the background to prevent any old app from grabbing everything, but again, automation is the purpose here.

If you don’t have a reasonably trusted system, then sure, it’s about as secure as any other password manager. I remember reading some time ago there was a plan to make a global framework for trusted application.accessnto things like this, but it was shot down for being “oppressive” in the same way as Microsoft’s trust app mess.

Ideally there would be an advanced mode where each app is granted access to specific keys, and that interaction is controlled by the user. This would never be the default obviously as the user interaction would be an insane annoyance to people who don’t care.

Keepass is fine I guess. If you don’t ñeed or want access anywhere else, can’t imagine why you’d need Bitwarden or ProtonPass.

A phone seems like an easier solution, but there are VOIP integrations for HA, as well as ways to stream audio through the media player to different devices. I’m not aware of any integration that specifically does paging as you describe, but it would be easy to do with an esp32 board with a speaker.

Same as you would on MacOS :

• ditch the .deb package because it’s the wrong tool for the job here.
• Squashfs image with encryption
• Set keyring entries and a wrapper script to manage lock/unlock. If you already know the hardware platform of all users, this can even be improved upon

I have no idea why someone would be using Debian packages to distribute something like this though, if that’s the question. Absolutely not going to work well.

If it’s a mirror, then switching to another mirror that is available should work fine.

You’ll still be running into frequent issues if you go with R-V, so be warned.

That being said, the Framework R-V board only comes for the 13" format, so you can buy a cheap Framework 13 refurb from their store (fully warranted and everything), and swap the board out for the R-V for $200.

There are other R-V laptops out there, but I think the build quality is nowhere near the Framework, AND if you feel like it sucks, just swap that board back with the one it shipped with.

You probably got an HA update. There’s either a bug I in the monitor, or you need to wait for a check-in for the state to change. It can be days in some devices.

If you just want the machine to do something only WHEN it detects the TV, that’s a bit different. You want an HDMI or DP switcher. You can just make a tiny listener for DBUS events that launches BPM when it detects the TV coming online.

Simple bash script set to run once your DE is loaded would do it. Detect the TV with xrandr or equivalent, then start Steam in BPM. If not, do nothing.

MacOS, phones, off-brand handhelds that run SteamOS…that’s the goal.