It helps them navigate around the ship. But seriously, it could be used as a strategy to navigate with lights off and not be seen by other ships.

They are all perfectly stable if you’re just using it for office stuff and browsing. You only need to worry about stability if you’re gaming or doing tech stuff, like homelabing.

Nope, and nope.

There’s no right way, really. You can turn almost anything into a server.

If you have old hardware laying around I suggest you start with that. When you’re comfortable with setting everything up and using it on your day to day, then it’s time to invest into hardware.

You need to have this extension or similar to be able to minimize to tray on gnome: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/

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