Taking only a part of my post does not make sense in this context.

Open source is when the source code is available.

Free software is when the source is available and the license lets you exercise your 4 freedoms.

Good idea IMHO, and I never heard about these HDMI dummies. Might try this.

You’re right, they are not as expensive as I remembered. I’ll try to find one on ebay. How do you access the console - browser with Java applet?

Uses quite a lot of space, that’s why I’d prefer slide-out if it weren’t so expensive.

Je me souviens que qqn dans ma famille en avait un, et c’était plutôt bien (bonne réception, bien stable quand ça tombait par terre de temps en temps…).

Merci

Aucun modèle qui te plaît parmi ceux que Amazon révèle en cherchant « mobile senior »?

You’ve got 2 kidneys. You generously give one to someone in need.

You have 1 kidney. You now have a single point of failure, where you had redundancy before.

IT guy here, just in case that might have gibt unnoticed.

I’ve exclusively used Thinkpads with Linux as my daily driver since 20 years now. Programming, office, general tinkering (no graphics-intensive stuff though) - had almost no issues in the whole time.

IMHO for Linux, you really can’t go wrong with any Thinkpad nowadays.