just some guy

As a cat owner, you’ll never catch my rolls in this blasphemous position. Kitty’s getting misted if he confuses hanging TP as a toy

I’ve got the only clock that matters to me , an alarm clock. Worst comes to worst, as long as it has power it can get close enough to current time/date via radio. It also makes setting it to exact time much easier/faster.

This is awesome, is there a template of this?

Yeah but those Jovians are bit extreme

as a UC Gundam fan

Since you’ve mentioned you want a single computer to play media you already have, I’d so forget Plex. Sure it can be used in this manner but it’s overkill. Plex, and other software like it, are best used for streaming from server to client(s).

Building on the Ras pi suggestion, I’d say take a look at osmc on an rpi. (If you go the rpi route, I’d also suggest dropping a lil more cash to have it boot/run from something other than an SD card, ext hd and nvme SSD are both better boot drive options. SD cards have a tendency to bite the dust after a while in single board computers)

Also, since you mentioned being unaware of the steps you should follow to get something like this running, here’s a quick guide on how easy it is to get osmc running: https://learn.littlebirdelectronics.com.au/guides/create-a-htpc-media-centre-with-raspberry-pi

Thank you for the context.

I honestly expected that to be exactly that, overly alternating (at least from a stand point of majority of users) passwords. I was just curious as the grievance felt very case specific.

That’s certainly a problem I thankfully do not encounter, our Mac users use their O365 logins just like our PC users. If they forget it, they don’t need my help changing or checking it. I haven’t encountered the wifi at login issue, though. That probably piqued my curiosity the most. Our Macs use web auth for login by default (with option to use locally cached password instead) and it requires an internet connection to work. If the mac’s couldn’t/didn’t connect, most wouldn’t be able to login. I could absolutely see this being an issue in a new place where no internet connection has been established before the issue, like a hotel or airport.

They all have a JIC hidden local account too, though. If OPs MDM tools include this option, it could be helpful for the cited scenario(s)

I understand and agree with you but I’m a bit confused, is that in reference to part of my comment?

I’m just curious here, but what are your Mac users doing to lock their accounts so often that this has become such a recurring pain point?

I feel for you, ever since I got approval to move all our mac’s to kandji for management, I have less issues reported from Mac users than windows users.

Terminus is nice and has a lot of platform options. Ive used on an old ipad in the past. If you have several machines, I highly recommend servercat. Works wonderfully on iphone, ipad, and Mac. It also has options to write and store commands to easily send out to any number of devices with a taps/clicks.

As said in another comment a bare metal Debian install likely wouldn’t be very smooth, or you’d have to run it within Android. Alternatively, if you want to run Linux directly on the phone you could try postmarketOS https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_5T_(oneplus-dumpling)

I can’t help as much with the exposing outward (I’m a basic bitch and just use ddns to expose mine since I can’t get a dedicated IP) but a separate vlan with rules to allow your primary vlan devices to see/talk to it, and block it to be able to see out of it’s own VLAN, would definitely be recommended.

I’m seeing several reports of people having success with Alook on older iPads

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alook-browser-8x-speed/id1261944766

use dd or “Restore from disk image” in Gnome Disks