/dev/random, seriously? This will take ages and have no advantages over /dev/zero. Even when you really need to fill your drive with random data, use /dev/urandom, there’s a chance that this will finish in couple days at least. And no, there’s no guarantee that it will wipe all blocks because there are reserved blocks that only device firmware can access and rotate. Some data on rotated blocks still can be accessible for forensic analysis if you care about this.

Just use blkdiscard.

I’m currently running mint cinnamon (how original, I know), and asking because i can’t seem to add mullvad-vpn stable repo.

What’s the problem? Mint is based on Ubuntu, use the corresponding Ubuntu repo (noble in case of Mint 22.1).

You can then combine this with s (substitute):

sed '/myregex/ s/from/to/ p'

This is not combining commands. In your example p is a modifier to the s/// command.

Just disable printing out with the -n option and add the p modifier to the s/// command to print out lines where substitution has occured. sed -n 's/your-regexp/replacement/p'

It’s practically unrealistic. Even for a distro governed by a US-based company there are a lot of download mirrors, so restricting downloads from all of them is extremely difficult (and anyway unrestricted foreign mirrors still could synchronize with official ones via VPN). Forbidding foreign developers would require identification of each developer, but few distros do this (Debian does, but e.g. Fedora does not).

Developers would understand that such restrictions effectively kill a project, so they would shirk them.

It’s a bad practice to log in as root even for administrative tasks. You need to run numerous commands, some of hem can be potentially dangerous while not requiring root privileges. So normally you have an admin user in the sudo/wheel group and need to login to this account. Also, this adds some protection in case your key has leaked.

The best way is to disable password login and use SSH keys only. Any further steps are not required, but you may additionally install fail2ban or sshguard.

Your idea is correct, but I don’t know how to do this in Wndows (while this is pretty simple in linux). However I want to warn you that if the partition that you are dumping is used by the OS, the resulting image will most likely be corrupted. Better use a linux live system and ensure that the partition is not mounted.

find / -lname '/path/you/are/looking/for/*'

Note that the -lname option is a GNU find extension and may not work with other find implementations.

It asks for a path to a root directory of a bootstraped container. You can create it with debootstrap, rinse, pacstrap, alpine-chroot-install, virt-bootstrap etc.

virt-manager is able to work wit lxc. Add a new connection of type Libvirt-LXC.

Yes, you can.

#!/bin/sh
printf 'ABC %s: ' "$(date --rfc-3339=date)" | xclip

Do you really need OPNsense? Buying a OpenWrt capable router would save your money, place and silence.