Managing a legally procured library of media. Piracy is not the only way to get digital music, movies, and books.

Export controls or legal compliance, most likely. Export controls because the code may be a protected technology, or compliance because the company doesn’t have gdpr or some other legal framework.

I just unplug the mouses USB from the PC and plug it back in after putting the PC to sleep. Et voila, pc no longer wakes from mouse.

REAR Relax-and-Recover will do entire system point-in-time snapshot backups to a bootable iso or physical USB thumb drive: https://relax-and-recover.org/rear-user-guide/index.html

I use rear for backing up my root, and Borg for packing up user data (for versioning, file recovery), but you can use rear for the entire system too.

You could use a python script with oathtool copied onto each of your devices. This is not a good suggestion.

Podman-compose is a python script that simply converts a compose file to ‘podman run’. It worked fine enough for me, but the caveat being it doesn’t have full feature parity and the errors aren’t as good. The only thing I couldnt get working was connecting my GPU to jellyfin.

Turning conainers into systemd units is easy: ‘podman generate systems --new --name $container_name › $HOME/.config/systems/user/$container_name.service’ ‘systemctl --user enable --now $container_name’

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.html

Plenty of big companies make money on commodities; its entire sectors of the economy. Would it be that big of a shift in thinking to consider software as a commodity good?