Trump is pressuring other countries to follow suit with his stupid bullshit, he would have a fit if somebody took it over

When you say hibernate do you mean sleep, because my understanding was proper hibernate writes the image to disk of the memory, and reads that back in on next boot. PC is totally off during proper hibernate

You do want windows EFI separate as it occasionally likes to turf the Linux efi entries. With opensuse it will probe foreign OS and add chainloader entries to point to the other EFI bootloaders. You set the OpenSUSE to load first and choose mint or windows from the grub menu

Similar benefit. Snapper and BTRFS on OpenSUSE means anytime you make a change to the system (add or remove packages, alter boot stuff, services etc, all through GUI tools) the system is snapshotting the changes and addingvit to the grub menu as another boot choice.

OoenSUSE is highly stable but should something go wrong by your own meddling you can be back to working just by a reboot. If the system is as you want after the boot to an older snapshot you issue sudo snapper rollback, that tells Tue system to keep that branch as your default

NixOS has a config file, you backup that file, you can duplicate your system with it.

OpenSUSE has an AutoYast system where you can build a config for the next install.

OpenSUSE microOS has ignition and combustion files to replicate a system from scratch. For those that don’t like hand typing a config file there is this web based tool to write out a file based on selections https://opensuse.github.io/fuel-ignition/

Personally, unrelated to OP, I’m on the other end of the spectrum. I built a silent PC, with fanless heatsink. Couldn’t find a source here for fanless power supply so bought a 750w that doesn’t spin fan till 30% wattage use. PC uses 15w at idle and about 23w for normal computer stuff. 45w if I push it with video rendering or other workloads. 700w doing nothing :)

If you mean like a file for evidence got stored and you want to ensure it wasn’t tapered with you can generates a checksum hash then record that hash elsewhere for verification later. Drives will also store access times, even if no data was changes, but just touched or viewed

Yep, I ran Leap from 2017 till 2024 same system, updates were so stable you could depend on them. And nVidia hosts its own repo for Leap and Tumbleweed. I moved to Tumbleweed when I changed hardware, so for the past year it’s been solid

It has a learning curve for the Graphical Package Manager, but YAST GUI is awesome. The automatic snapshots are great; if any thing you do breaks the system you just boot to w previous snapshot in the advanced boot option, then if it is allworksing as expected issue a sudo snapper rollback command to make your current snapshot the default.

Also CBS having a politicist on staff to ensure reporting is not against trump

It’s possible there is dedicate system to do this, I haven’t researched it. But if not setting up syncthing would work. And if its a lot of data sync it local first then mail or drive the remote drive to them.

Elsewhere in China, phone inspections may not be standard but targeted. Although broader surveillance like the National Anti‑Fraud Center may be used.

Aka I ain’t travelling there

https://www.mic.com/impact/china-monitors-tourists-by-putting-surveillance-apps-on-their-phones-according-to-new-report-18168434

People have said that is exactly what happens. Some had full phone scan, other requirement is installing a china app and keeping it on your phone for your stay

You have to install an app on your phone and keep it their during your visit. Some people said they had a full phone scan done on entry. Don’t bring your regular phone bring a burner and don’t login to any of your accounts

Tailscale is great in that config is super simple. Downsides tailscale ssh has to be called at launch if you want ssh access over that network… Could be a benefit for security…however its a tailscale specific ssh and not everything is available.
Data servers moved to the USA a few ears back.

Wireguard is more setup, but a better (self host option ). There is also Headscale if you want to selfhost a tailscale type server

The only downside of Tailscale is a few years back they moved their data servers from Canada to the USA…so with the current administration this could become a privacy issue at some point

Do you know if you installed in legacy BIOS or EFI mode? If its EFI then most BIOS screens have a method to then pick the actual EFI entry (if the bootup discovers more than one) and you can then set it to boot Linux (and hopefully your Linux install did a probe OS and chainloaded to your Windows Boot). I had this issue before.

I also had an HP recovery partition getting invoked every time windows booted and detected change. The remedy wiping the drive to her ride of that stupid partition

Could be you need to set boot partition EFI in BIOS, or could be a recovery partition messing things up for you

I had no issue with HP, even with secure boot. Just had to pick boot order in BIOS