What’s written lower right? I can read “polished” and “alcohol”…

Good idea IMHO, and I never heard about these HDMI dummies. Might try this.

You’re right, they are not as expensive as I remembered. I’ll try to find one on ebay. How do you access the console - browser with Java applet?

Uses quite a lot of space, that’s why I’d prefer slide-out if it weren’t so expensive.

You’ve got 2 kidneys. You generously give one to someone in need.

You have 1 kidney. You now have a single point of failure, where you had redundancy before.

IT guy here, just in case that might have gibt unnoticed.

2FA is more secure, and IMHO there’s no need to be upset.

I’ve exclusively used Thinkpads with Linux as my daily driver since 20 years now. Programming, office, general tinkering (no graphics-intensive stuff though) - had almost no issues in the whole time.

IMHO for Linux, you really can’t go wrong with any Thinkpad nowadays.