Ethernet over hdmi

https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/

https://www.cmple.com/learn/learning-center-hdmi-cables-with-ethernet

They can also hijack the connection of a connected box (ethernet over hdmi) or via a connected phone (bluetooth & chromecast iirc)

I can’t work out if this is well intentioned ignorance or trolling, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and a serious answer.

The first point is there are a huge number of threats to privacy and your online and data security from connecting to the internet even in western countries.

VPNs are not just for protection from govt abuse, in fact their efficacy there is far lower than for several other use cases.

If you’re in the US (for example) and with one of the biggest ISPs then every DNS request being made is (was anyway, I assume still is) logged and your internet usage is then sold off to data brokers to profile you.

So yeah, dont trust your ISP, and if you’re dealing with a VPN that wants all that info then find a better one (proton or mullvad for exampke, you can pay with monero or bitcoin or even cash by snail mail)

Most common reason is running out of disk space. Boot from USB and have a check as to whether the update filled up the disk

My motherboard which is only a few years old (2ish?) has serial port pin outs.

Context for those who are baffled (I was)

https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/

No Linus hasn’t grabbed a red rag and isn’t off to foment revolution

To expand on this (very correct reply), simply download the win 10 install media from microsoft, run the install, during setup it will ask for your licence key and there will be a little icon saying something like “I don’t have my key handy I’ll do it later” the install will then finish fine and the only restriction is you can’t customise wallpaper.

Other things to note, do NOT connect it to the internet when you’re installing, let it moan and then you can create a local account. Otherwise it makes you setup a microsoft account.

Do use 10, don’t use 11.

Dual boot works but windows has to be installed first and it will mess with your linux boot - backup your machine before install. I’d run up a windows Virtual Machine first before doing a dual boot install if it were me

Should work, provided you can access the bios to choose it as the boot device. The usual issues with this are: 1. It’s a school / work PC and BIOS access is locked 2. It has weird hardware and you can’t get network access working to sort it.

1 is common. 2 isnt common any more.

Make a live boot usb and try it and see.

I use BAUH as a GUI “update everything in one click” does repos, aur, flatpak, snaps, appimages. Paru is CLI option for repo, aur and flatpak. I dunno if it does snaps never checked.

I’ve not had any trouble with HPs, burn a boot USB and boot a live distro and see if it works.

TBH I must have been lucky because the only linux hardware support grief I’ve had with laptops (a dozen all different brands) has been wifi cards/drivers. The one time I had that problem I coughed up the £20 and replaced the pcie wifi card with an Intel one.

Then again I don’t try to make fingerprint readers work which apparently is a pain