NonDollarCurrency

If it were up to me, the first boot I would make sure theres no internet access either via Ethernet or wifi that ensures the computer cannot phone home to its mothership. From there either reinstall windows fresh or straight to Linux if you want to avoid spyware.

Weak active directory password auditing. Going to be great fun for service desk once the forced password change occurs.

At work, setting up windows server auditing in a way that doesn't nuke the event viewer with millions of security entires. At home working on upgrading my proxmox.

I set up flexo for Arch Linux update caching and squid proxy for Alpine, Debian. This stops me from having to download the same files over and over.

I'd hazard a guess that botnets and cryptominer worms cause the uptick in network hashrate for the centralized pools because it's easy to point hundreds of thousands of machines to 1 large pool.

Hey I do this exact thing as well. Would highly recommend if you like self hosting podcasts to listen to.

I use zabbix to monitor everything, agent on each device uses around 30 mb of memory and with the Linux templates it can monitor just about everything on the server.

This used to happen to me an older version but since upgrading to 0.0.40 I've not experienced this anymore

You can but sometimes you may run into an error where unarc.dll can't run and the programs don't install. I usually use Linuxrulez as those programs are made to work within Linux.

Agreed, I bet they've never even attempted visiting or trying to live there, so how can they have that opinion when so many of their population are starving.