And 2d, who self host on a server/VPS they rented somewhere.
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New stuff gets called AI until it is useful, then we call it something else.
Wifi works now, the wiki is out of date.
However, the Pinetab 2 does not have the screen layer for stylus support. See the FAQ
Your best bet is anything Wacom as they have their own driver in Linux. Alternatively OpenTabletDriver supports some other tablets as well https://opentabletdriver.net/Tablets.
Or the DIGImend kernel driver http://digimend.github.io/drivers/digimend/tablets/
ISPs were already required to block the sites. I don't think an additional block on the Cisco side would change anything in that case.
Apparently Cisco operates a popular DNS resolver? Never heard of that before.
And definitely don't learn how to use a VPN. Or set up Unbound or Bind or PowerDNS Recursive...
KDEConnect?
In my experience setting environment variables is pretty inconsistent. The easiest way would be using /etc/environment. This sets stuff globally for all users and definitely works.
PAM also used to support a per-user environment file, but that's deprecated or removed even. The best you can do for per-user config is setting variables both in your login shell and the systemd user environments file.
Maybe check out Tailscale. It's mainly a mesh VPN for your own devices, but they have a lot of options included so you can share stuff with other people.
Using whatever works better for the current project is doing Hybrid Cloud. Now your boss can brag about how modern the infrastructure is.