Ugh, my field (tech) means i have to have more than a passing familiarity with it

damned skippy.

I would also have accepted close encounters or there are four lights.

Low res webcam, massive north facing window behind me (australia), i make people pay dearly for wasting my time with meetings

Not just germans, aussie here, assumed that was internal walls (which differ from external). Seen a few double brick/ concrete framed out like that

Mind you our building standards have gone down the shitter since the 90’s…

The only acessible element is the webserver. Fileserver, home automation, octopi, proxmox, media, etc etc are all isolate.

DynDNS. That will give you a hostname, but check if your ISP offers a static IP tbh. Client side shouldn’t matter overmuch if you’re returning requests it’s made

Just use the rdp wrapper. https://www.helpwire.app/blog/remote-desktop-for-windows-10-home/

It works, i’ve used it in professional settings no worries

S2g linux users are their own worst enemies

Well, no duh.

M$ has been the dominant OS for the majority of a lot of peoples lives, accordingly a massive, massive ecosystem has grown up around it.

My IT career has taken me some weird and wonderful places, and there is a lot of extremely specialised software that will only run on windows, and wine unfortunately still has a bit of a stigma with its interoperability. When you’re running shit a business literally relies on to exist, you don’t play games with it.

Fortunately m$ are shooting themselves in the face, which is driving a lot of vendors to rethink their software., but it’s still a slog.

I’ve been a tech for 25 years, a steeped nerd even longer. I’ve met many many linux users. Three of them weren’t obnoxious distro adherents. (Four if you count myself)