If it was valid, do you really think people would be talking about it being a problem here? Please use your head a little.

Also, two entitely different meanings of the word signing being used here. Signing as in signing a bill vs. Cryptographic signing. Adobe has some weird “halfway” thing that’s more than painting the sig on the image, but isn’t gpg.

Hooray for proprietary shit becoming accepted for legal use! Yuck.

Depends on if you’re allowed to bring the Pi in at all. Might be safer to just buy what you need “on site”. There’s a lot more to this than just the technical side.

Whatever you do, just be careful. A lot of places don’t play easy with foreigners breaking the law. It can be easy to hide what you’re specifically doing over a network, but they don’t need to know what you’re spefically doing to say “bypassing the filter at all is illegal”, “using tor gives us probable cause”.

Depending on your situation and how they check things you bring in, it might be better to just load up a/some big hard drive(s) with enough content to carry you through until your next trip outside the filter. Knew someone who was in a similar situation for a long while that would emulate their way through old console game libraries like that.

May be worth looking into how political dissidents can protect themselves. Hidden encrypted containers. Private vps outside the filter that you connect to, doing all your questionable shit on the remote server outside, so the only data transfer is video feed to/from. If hiding what you’re doing is needed, steal notes from the people with lives at stake.

So much of this depends on specifics it may not be safe for you to share. Probably worth asking questions in some of the privacy focused communities.

OpenWRT won’t hide what you’re doing from the network that handles your internet connection. It’s just an option for something you could use as a router/wifi AP.

Toss some CRT shaders over top and this would be very convincing.

Man, when I first messed around with Linux I hosed the MBR more times than I can remember. Either through Windows smashing it with an update, or my dumb ass doing stupid shit in gparted.

Pretty sure I was able to recover the important files somehow, but my parents banished me to the old family desktop for that pretty quick.

You should be able to disable your monitor’s non-existant audio device in one of the settings menus. On Windows 10 it’s in the old style control panel’s audio device settings.

Huh? You only need the Pro version for Group Policy and all the registry settings, and you can get licenses for ~$20 if you buy an OEM license through an authorized reseller.

There’s some limitations to the OEM licenses, but I’ve never run into them.

As far as I’m aware, LTSC just effects the update channel that Windows Update pulls from, with LTSC getting non-critical updates later and for longer after support “ends”. Usually you can switch that in the registry.

Think what you want about 4chan, but I generally start with the links in the OP of the “/g/ - Technology” board’s regularly recurring “friendly windows thread”. Being 4chan, it is decidedly unfriendly, but the guides in the OP are usually good. Always read up thoroughly, fully, and apply your own common sense before using any tools or running commands.

Wish I could be more specific, but I’m still using 10, so I’m not familiar with the 11 specific stuff.

I work in a Windows environnent but often use Linux at home. I find that the level of difficulty is equivalent once you’re familiar with either OS, their general design, and how their management tools are meant to work. It’s mostly a familiarity problem. You don’t use Windows regularly so you have no idea where to even start troubleshooting, or how to tell at a glance if the instructions you’ve found pass the sniff test.

Plus, it’s always considerably easier to troubleshoot your own shit than to troubleshoot some random person’s jacked up configuration where you don’t know how they use their machine or how they managed to fuck it up.

The biggest difference I find is that Windows has such a massive user base that any “user based” help (like the microsoft support forums, yuck) is far more likely to be written by some shmuck that doesn’t know what they’re talking about than you see with Linux. Alternatively, it’s just content farm site after content farm site regurgitating shit advice stolen from the users who don’t really know what they’re talking about. Finding useful information and guides can be more difficult.

Just to stave off anyone else coming in and going “ackshuallee”… it’s true that you could technically do that with libreELEC. It’d be a fool’s errand of using SSH to get to the terminal and install all the programs and dependencies, and you’d still need some way to do arbitrary terminal commands from the kodi menu (I think there are plugins for that and for launching arbitrary programs though).

I played around with that myself for a few hours and gave up.

I’d love something actually good, but the closest you’ll get probably is running Kodi or whatever media frontend you want on top of a stripped down “normal” OS, with a separate frontend for games/programs like HyperSpin. Find a way to launch one from the other and you’d be set.

You’d still have to deal with Kodi not being able to pull full quality video from streaming platforms too, assuming you aren’t just sailing the high seas for your media.