It’s not harmful, but it really depends on what roles you’re trying to land.

I usually recommend going for A+ then Network+, then Linux+ for new technicians at data centers.

If you’re worried about interviewing, I can say from the other side of the table that actual projects and working through issues shows experience more clearly than simply studying for and passing a cert. Even something simple like setting your desktop/server to be the DHCP server (instead of the router being the DHCP server)

It might be useful if they had bothered to link to the report they’re referencing, or maybe even tell us who made the report.

Agreed - they want your money here, not your liberty.

I believe it’s to protect the prongs from getting damaged during shipping - and if the container gets rained on or something, it could provide some protection from that

I installed from one flash drive with the image (on ventoy) to another flash drive that was plugged in to be the boot drive. On a cheap USB2 drive, it’s unusably slow - so make sure you use the fastest drive you can

I haven’t run on integrated graphics in forever, so I was worried it might have awful performance, especially considering it’s Intel

But it looks like things should be able to run at 720p at a reasonable framerate

https://artofpc.com/review/intel-uhd-770/

If you do decide to add a GPU later, you may want to consider upgrading the power supply at the same time. The rule of thumb I use is that the power supply should supply double the power that the machine is supposed to consume (Which you’ve already done here for the current build)

I don’t use VRR, but I meet the rest of your criteria

Electron apps were the biggest pain pont - I would be typing in discord and there was noticeable lag and letters would disappear until I have several characters beyond them. I worked around this by using discord on their website in a browser tab.

Not sure which update resolved this, but it’s now working as I expect it to, so I think if you choose to use a Nvidia GPU, you should have an okay time. I would just say to consider a beefier AMD GPU as well, since they tend to have much better driver support in Linux

I think the title is from the perspective of the (adult) dog. “I made this, I trust you to handle my young, but please be careful”