If the device get stolen, your drive and its files can be easily read.
Other attacks like malware or ransomware are almost the same if the drive is encrypted or not.
Disk encryption is important for laptops and phones because these devices are frequently stolen. For desktop or servers is still good idea, though.
Dammit I cannot unsee it now.
I will keep saying Liñux now.
cd as owner lol
I remember myself asking why directories had x flags in their permissions. Like, you don't execute them. What do they use the x flag for?
We will switch to GNU/Hurd.
Then we will plug a USB device and remember that Hurd doesn't support that yet.
I don't know any product that matches your requirements.
If I had to deal with that today I'd buy a rasberry pi, a USB sim card dongle and some raspberry hat with GPS receiver.
You can write a small API that listens to the raspberries, who sends periodically their positions, and save it to a database.
But it's a quite large project. There's a lot of aspects to consider. The GUI, security, batteries, and a way to attach it to an animal without being lost or destroyed.
Sorry for not giving a useful answer lol. If you come out with an actual solution I'll be glad to hear it, so I can track my cats in case they get lost.
EVs are expensive because of the battery.
A cheap car is not a novelty, specially for asian manufacturers. There is no cheap EV because there is no cheap big ion-li battery.
Toyota strategy of focus on hybrid and hydrogen seemed weird to me. But over the years has been started to make sense.
The world needs a better battery. Until that, EVs will be heavy and expensive.
I recommend Mint.
Chances are your friend's secondary laptop doesn't have extra resources for Gnome to run smoothly. Sad thing is nowadays Gnome is very heavy and bloated.
Also, he may try both distros live-usb. Maybe he don't care about Mint looking outdated. But if he does, you may try Fedora live-usb and check if university wifi works properly.
It's his laptop after all, so I believe your appreciations on the beauty of desktop environments are secondary.
I thought its purpose was anti-usa propaganda rather than profit. Now I see it can serve both purposes.
I had a Deskjet 2500 some years ago. It lasted less than 2 years.
Catridges were expensive af and lasted about 20 pages. Maybe less.
In less than 2 years it started to print blank pages or pages with little ink on it. I didn't find a way to fix it, not even with new catridges. So I threw it away and promised to myself to never buy HP again.
In Chile I recall Microsoft sending a notification to my former worplace because someone used torrent to download a game from inside the company network. That person didn't notice that all traffic was being routed to company's VPN hosted in MS Azure.
ISPs don't give a shit. The goverment has laws against piracy that are never applied (you know: Southamerica, the lawlessness). But gringo companies do care.
My advice is to avoid Google, MS and the big tech to follow your pirates activities. They may suspend services to you, or notifiy some local authority.
Use a different browser or machine for your big tech interactions, and you'll be fine.
Edit: typos.
That's why it's not always an option.
Some servers have some kind remote console hardware, with their own security issues.
Your "threat model" is important too. Do you expect that server to get stolen? If it happens, is there critical data that should not leak?
Maybe you need to encrypt a directory, and not the whole drive.