Of my saturdaymorning brain understands this correctly you might in fact be right https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic

Edit: however: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1hdwm04/comment/m1zmt9d/ and https://docs.kernel.org/process/license-rules.html#id1

So I feel like this is definitely still possible and ‘legal’ depending on the implementation. Nvidia and AMD have done it for years.

IANAL though :p

Not on GitHub or any other platform complying with takedown requests though.

Not if they’re kernel modules, written from scratch, afaik

Afaik: no

Do you mean like https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow ?

and use established behavioural norms within Windows and Mac

Even when they fucking suck some times?

Kopia is a solid choice!

While I totally agree, that is a great way to instantly antagonize or alienate a lot of people because you make them feel dumb.

Remmina doesnt work for you? Or does it suck with multimonitor servers specifically?

That is true, but I think there are some newer protocols that support higher fidelity.

Also Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (for example) was shipped with pipewire instead of pulse audio which just made the handsfree profile (aka bidirectional audio) work out of the box. Have been using it without significant problems since that release.

I believe most people have kinda given up on hibernation :p

Out of interest, which printer? Anycubic Kobra by any chance?

Regarding the camera: you could probably script this with ffmpeg and let it output the cropped stream as a virtual camera but I am nog going to pretend this sounds very appealing to most people.

Regarding scanning. Maybe you can scan to PDF and then use this: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf . does seem to do OCR also but havent tried it myself.

Have a look at Thingino. Comes with wireguard built in. No idea about the solar stuff though. Maybe run it off a generic 5V solar solution.

If possible: do that on company time. Let the boss pay for it.

Care to elaborate on ‘the risks of flatpak’. If you are refering to the practice of people using unofficial flatpaks: Yes I think that poses a certain risk because you are adding an additional party to your threat model.