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Top shows ping round trip time averaging 10.3 seconds, peaking at 21 seconds. Perhaps that would be good for pingfs.
Below, 59.5% packet loss can be seen with ping.

Last 2 screenshots is from apt update, which made me realize how much time I was wasting. 18.7MB downloaded in 9 minutes and 26 seconds, and 78.3MB took 31 minutes, 34 seconds.

But hey, I could still download a 3.5" floppy worth of data in just around 40 seconds.

Not deprioritized, not throttled. Just a carrier with barely any RF spectrum (in 4G, my phone doesn't do 5G) offering 300GB data pack and getting overloaded to death in some areas. (Every day)

Proxmox is a virtualization platform based on Debian. It's not supposed to have a GUI, the management is either done via web UI or SSH.

But since it basically is just Debian with some more stuff, I installed Plasma on top of it.

It is also not supposed to use WiFi since that won't work with Linux bridges. But, after removing the adapter from /etc/network/interfaces (which gets automatically added any time I make a change through PVE web UI) and rebooting, I was able to make use of the adapter inside Plasma. And also create a bridge on proxmox, add IP to it, enable IP routing, and NAT everything coming from that subnet (used for VMs) through the WiFi adapter.

I just wish the noVNC could dynamically resize VM display like with VirtualBox after installing guest additions.

There is no use case. It can be done, that's it. I also tried to install Proxmox on my phone under Limbo PC emulator (QEMU-based), but I couldn't avoid random kernel panics during installation.

Also, Proxmox with 10GiB of available RAM (8+4, 2 for GPU), where the host uses up 3GiB is not really ideal. And on a weak dual-core CPU, on top of that.

Edit: But now I got an idea.
Now, there are issues. The simple solution will create multiple SSH connections that will never leave the laptop - that is - useless encryption, aside from other likely issues. The main thing is extremely easy set-up.
OK.
Thing 0: Exchange and authorize SSH keys between host and VMs.
Thing 1: Create another ext4 or whatever volume on LVM, and mount it on host (probably better to have VM with large disk - why should every VM have SSH access to host). This will be used for file sharing.
Thing 2: Mount it on all desired VMs using SSHFS.
Thing 3: Install waypipe (like ssh -X, but for Wayland) to VMs and host.
Thing 4: Create shortcuts on host desktop for desired GUI applications (which will run on VMs), prefixed by waypipe command. E.g.: waypipe -c none ssh user@debian-main.home.arpa firefox.

Waypipe works with vsock as well, which might be useful in this situation, but I have no idea how that's used, and if it is relevant here. Based on the man page, it does sound like it though.
But anyway, mostly just a concept.

Idea

Primary laptop will run DE with 1 screen (its own).
Second laptop is to be used as a secondary (extended) monitor for primary laptop.
Both laptops will run Linux.

Tested solutions and their issues

krfb-virtualmonitor:

Creates virtual display and runs a VNC server, exactly as desired.
Issue: Slow as hell. FPS become SPF even on 0.3ms 1Gbps point-to-point connection.

KDE Connect virtual display

Creates virtual display and runs an RDP server, exactly as desired.
Issue(s): Really needs that high quality connection to run reasonably well. That isn't much of a problem, I can use a cable. The biggest problem is, no matter the settings, both with Remmina and KRDC the mouse pointer does not show up. Silly issue, but yeah.
Also, the Debian 13 KDE Connect package is too outdated to work with this, but I was able to use it in KDE Neon and Arch.

So, basically what I want exists, just with a major bug. Not seeing the mouse pointer is quite a problem.

Also, at first I hoped to use the already existing "network", my phone's hotspot. I can get 300Mbps and 3ms between phone and client. But between 2 clients? 400ms and with ping I see 1/3 of packets being duplicated.

https://files.catbox.moe/8g9jk5.JPG doesn't embed again

If you want to modify a pointer to pointer you need to pass a pointer to pointer to pointer.

I am lost.

TOTP Authenticator
Browser
Terminal emulator
Wireguard client

I've had the weird idea to use libpam-google-authenticator for both SSH and Sudo.
Hell, for one machine I don't even know the password. I just set it to a long random string. If I need root access, I can get a code from my phone!
That means I open it A LOT.

At one point I also had 4FA for fun. Or 3FA depending on how you look at it.
On server - pubkey + password + TOTP
On client the private key additionally encrypted with a different password.
Anyway...

"Today in Budapest, Hungarian authorities took seven Ukrainian citizens hostage. The reasons are still unknown, as well as their current well-being, or the possibility of contacting them.
These seven Ukrainians are employees of state-owned Oschadbank, who were operating two bank"

• Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on X

The Oschadbank employees were detained while passing through Hungary between Austria and Ukraine and operating two bank cars, carrying $40 million, 35 million euros, and 9 kilograms of gold.

Hungarian government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs confirmed that "all seven individuals will be expelled from Hungary."

In connection with the incident, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warned Ukrainian citizens to avoid traveling to Hungary for safety reasons.

As usual, the answer is alcohol.
This DVD burned fine, but didn't read. I pressed my nail into the side to separate the 2 disc sections, then played around with it*, and finally stripped both the purple dye and reflective layer with isopropyl alcohol.

*I of course tried what it would do if re-inserted into the DVD drive. Single half wouldn't spin up. The spindle didn't have good enough grip. Placing the half with reflective layer back on top surprisingly made it read as a blank DVD, showing its (past) properties.
Trying to burn it again, unsurprisingly, resulted in I/O error.

Nothing bad happens in the post.

So, I have ordered something to Amazon locker for the first time.
It was already dark outside, but still just 19:20, so I went to pick up my parcel.
I got to the locker at around 20:30 (you see, the nearest locker isn't that close), while suddenly, I hear a car stop behind me, and I hear some German.
"POLIZEI", the car states.
Now, I don't speak German, but thankfully they spoke English.

"Where are you going?"
"To the Amazon box."
"Are you from [city]?"
"Yes."
"...OK..."
He sounded a bit confused/surprised, but it's just a 4km walk from the last bus stop at the other side of the border.

Well, I didn't wait after the OK, and just resumed walking towards the locker. They however stayed there, watching me.

"Well, this thing better be working.", I thought.
I typed in the code, doors opened, and the Police drove away.

I searched around if for some god knows what reason Austria has a curfew, nope.
Finally at last, while waiting for a bus back, I tried checking the locker on Amazon. For some reason, this is not stated on the order page. So, I go to my addresses, click to add a pick-up point, search for this locker, and would you look at that.
Open till 7pm.

But, like, why? It's just next to a parking lot, a few meters from the sidewalk. No locks, gate, anything.