I’ve got an Acer Aspire from 2008 running mint on an Intel Atom and 1 GB memory (might be 2, I forget). It is slow but very usable except for video and such.

Its still the same as it ever was, just less traffic and they charge five bucks to list vehicles now. I still use it but responses are a lot slower.

Craigslist still exists, I use it fairly often.

Yeah you usually can. LibreOffice works fine for most things. Some classes need things like Solid works that only run on Windows, and the remote testing software can be a nightmare. You might get an O365 license as part of your enrollment but doubt you really need it.

Protip; learn how to typeset your papers in something like LyX and integrate Zotero for citation management. The typesetting usually got me a few extra points alone.

Same - can sync snapshots from Truenas to Backblaze.

If you want to get real fancy you could stash an N40L cube server at your mom’s house where she will never find it and VPN back to your local network and replicate snapshots to it

Make sure the cell provider hasn’t banned the model. AT&T banned a bunch of perfectly good unlockable international phones and kept the locked local ones not supporting lineage. They still work of course, just can’t make calls.

There’s a ton of junk - Bixby, the Samsung cloud apps, I have one I have to keep stock for work and another i have Lineage on and the difference is very noticeable, battery drain for one

Just spend the ten minutes once a month to pay from your bank using the payment service.

It worked perfectly well to install though? Like why does it matter if its old

Mint runs on a 17-year-old Acer Aspire One I have. Slowly, very slowly, but perfectly.

Every now and then a website doesn’t work on Firefox.

Jellyfin is working pretty well for TV too, with the Schedules Direct feed. Just doesn’t get the naming right.

In Linux you just download, extract, and change the symlink. It is really easy.

Really only if you’re running your own email server. Otherwise as far as I know dynamic DNS fills the need.
You aren’t in any more risk either way.

Sounds like maybe you want to look into pfsense to do traffic filtering. Highly recommend.

Hey no did not know about this. Thanks!

I have to have MS apps for work and so have two devices, one with Lineage and one stock…its amazing how bad the stock experience is on a Galaxy Tab. Samsung and Google constantly bugs me to use apps I can’t remove or turn off. Its infuriating that this is a tablet I paid for.

Wasn’t a craze, it was an attempt to make the devices usable in most cases.

Hmm I have none of these issues

No, POE. Just the round black ones, I forget the model.

The only gotcha I can think of is the 4k bandwidth, better make sure you can handle more than one camera on your network.