You said you’re on Arch, you’ll want to go through their docs which are solid: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system

How old are we talking? If the CPU is >10 years old and/or some kind of ARM, it may not have hardware encryption acceleration, which means it’ll happen in software. I did that once, it was horrible. lscpu |grep -i aes should probably tell you what you need to know.

“find somewhere to stuff it” instructions unclear…

That’s probably the plan, though I see an Intel a380 low-profile for all of $100 that might be useful for some encode/decode tasks

Worth checking, though the 3U isn’t super-spacious inside

I really liked having a login screen, so I switched to Mandrake from Windows 95

Well, as I’m coming in here, I see two “no’s,” a “maybe” and I came to say “absolutely fucking yes” because I’ve lost hours to a couple cheap shitty usb-sata cables that did all kinds of weird stupid shit that immediately disappeared after I replaced the cables. So, “maybe” but “absolutely fucking yes.”

This looks amazing. I’m gonna wait for pgsql support, but you had me here: “Otherwise, if you sync using Nextcloud you can use the AntennaPods app and your podcasts will sync between Antennapod and Pinepods.”

How well does it run after you ground it up?

Don’t you still have to use a usb dongle for wifi? I wouldn’t recommend pine64 anything to people not actively involved in embedded development

Because he invented Hideo games

Or “fuck”