Everything will mostly work out of the box without any intervention. However, this is one of ASUS’ most problematic models even on Windows due to the dual screens and touch features.

Check this out: https://github.com/Fmstrat/zenbook-duo-linux

There’s also a handful of other repos that specifically address ASUS feature compatibility for their odd models. You should be fine.

None. Never.

You’re using a service that is proxying your data. They can read all of it.

If you don’t care, then good for you. You’re still the product as being a user because whatever you happen to be serving may eventually become interesting to them.

If not, no harm done. It costs pennies to host a 24/7 load balanced reverse proxy. You just can’t do it yourself.

Not sure what you’re asking here, but are you talking about the voice part, the TTS pat, or the interaction?

Absolutely not true 🤣🤣

Where’d you hear this?

Also, Silver blue is immutable. You are just full of bad info, bud.

Fedora is fine for the specifics you mentioned. If for some reason you feel the need to go immutable later, SB is alright-ish.

100% untrue. While a North Bridge controller can detect and attempt to set the clock frequency, there is absolutely no way to tell if both pieces of a mismatched pair will actually support the timings suggested or set by the controller, which will almost certainly default to whatever the on-board memory supports.

That along with the unknowns of whether it attempts to set channel ranks, which is almost certainly NOT an option to manually configure in a Thinkpad.

Not sure where you heard otherwise, but you’ve been misinformed.

This machine is also working with memory soldered on the board which comes with a whole host of other unknowns, which is why you look up what the timings are first and attempt to match that.

If the RAM timings are not exactly the same, you’re going to have instability issues. This is why it’s always recommended to install pairs of the same exact model and brand, the clock timings.

I doubt that BIOS is going to give you the specs you need, but somewhere you’ll likely be able to find the timings and compatible memory for this machine. You’ll generally need something faster than what’s installed so it can step it’s timings down to be more in sync.

Anyone in these comments claiming there is a big difference between “gaming distros” and any other is flat wrong.

Any distro works. It’s about the initial experience they want without having to fuss about changes. You can switch Desktop Environment on any distro easily, none of them offer massive gaming performance differences over the others. It’s subjective. For a beginner, don’t recommend immutable. That’s pretty much it.

This generally referred to as Key Rotation. It applies to everything from SSH keys, to API keys in running apps.

There are automated ways to do this with ease, but it’s very simple to do with a single script, and some sort of secure key/value store (bitwarden, Vault, etcd…whatever).

The process is basically something like:

1. Create a script that runs on cron to check for a key at your k/v store at an expected location, like /ssh_keys/host1-private-12.1.25 and /ssh_keys/host1-public-12.1.25
2. Deploy this script to all machines you wish to regularly rotate keys on and ensure running properly
3. Generate new keys and put them in your k/v store at some versioned location/path like /ssh_keys/host1-private-12.21.25 and /ssh_keys/host1-pub-12.21.25
4. Update your local script that regularly grabs these updated keys to point to the new version uploaded, bonus if your store can symlinkto some other locations like /ssh_keys/host1-private-current
5. Wait X period of time to ensure all hosts get whatever key they need

Your script can clear the old keys if needed but simply validating them in the access change serves the same effect. Up to you.

100%

Idiots. Now our government is being grifted by these asshats. They had to do it NOW of course, before anyone competent could reject it.

All the same. There will be no appreciable difference in any of them at the level you’re interested that can’t be tweaked and tuned from the apps you use.

Edit: though if you want long running game servers, a small minipc that draws a tiny amount of power is a good way to continuously keep the server portion running without wasting a ton of energy. The Intel N100 or the Ryzen 5 (forget which) can both run below 12W, which is about the same as an LED light bulb.

Unifi is fine, but pricey. It will definitely be above and beyond an ASUS as far as performance, simplicity, and features go.

So true

If you’ve not been paying attention to their other random products, it would seem this is unlikely.

They just jump from random thing to random thing and collect money along the way, draining the coffers with their C-level titles. Absolutely bullshit.

Nobody is going to touch that. Make builds available from a gitrepo maybe

Pretty much got it. Any other static routes you setup will be static to the new router only, but otherwise that’s pretty much it. Devices with static IPs don’t participate in DHCP, so it won’t cause a conflict. Just make sure DHCP is disabled on the new device.

The default gateway for the new device needs to be your existing router in order to get to the internet. Then when you create a new WG connection, you ensure all traffic that gets passed to this new device forwards through the Wire guard tunnel.

PC > WG-router > existing-router > internet

You need a router or a proxy. A proxy would be annoying, so a router is preferred.

If you don’t have control of your edge router, just get a cheap Pi-type device, install OpenWRT, setup your VPN connections, then create a route on your network to point at this new device for whatever you need it for.

If you simply want to use it at-will for certain things, you can put a proxy on it.

As to your other issues, it sounds like your WG connection is just dropping, in which case it won’t automatically reconnect by default. OpenWRT has plugins that can monitor that and reconnect when it drops, or you can script it pretty quickly as well.