Same, I’m on OpenSUSE, nVidia hosts its own OpenSUSE repo. As far back as 8 years(for me) you add the repo and add the driver. Everything works.

Yeah, I find it simple, but I’m used to text edits driving batch files etc. Daily driver I use Tumbleweed, the Yast zypper GUI gives you select and apply for pqckages, no command line needed.

She doesn’t install apps, Her config is what she needs. But nixOS install is pretty simple if you can copy paste text.

You go here https://search.nixos.org/packages

Search for a package, and click if you want permanent or ephemeral app and paste the code into the shell or into your config file.

Run a rebuild

Pretty easy

My wife is on NixOS, because she wanted a system that would be exactly the same if it died. She doesn’t know Linux from Mac or Windows; She doesn’t care about privacy or where apps come from, only that it operates the exact same everyday. (And Windows could not satisfy this requirement)

Yeah, TinyCore Linux needs 16GB I think. 8GB you might run BusyBox or something

Amazon sells 24 GB ones…

There might be a paid way. At work we have our phone numbers tied into zoom which ties into calling other phone numbers. It is used as a backend switchboard. So you could have a zoom number as your signal number which routes to your landline. Maybe.

Deja DUP has auto validation also. But besides “backup” I think everyone suggests using ZFS that auto heals bit rot. And don’t trust unplugged SSDs, they can suffer bit rot quickly if stored in a hot location

Opensuse has full disk encryption. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/20/setup-fde-on-opensuse/

https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/20/setup-fde-on-opensuse/

Edit NVM, read up on it. Seems like you have to run PCP protocal on IP4 to bypass thr CGNAT issues.

You can use any open port and port forward at the router, or is CG NAT only 80

Just setup wireguard on your server, add masquerading and ip forwarding. That single wireguard in, will give you full access to your lan

2.5admins is a great show even if you aren’t an admin.

Still been going with multiple shows. I don’t think it was “dropped”, if I recall Chris bought back the rights to his own shows, so he could manage it himself. There was some controversy when the head managers let Joe Ressington go, bypassing Chris (as Joe’s Manager). Seemed things got set in motion to go independent after that.