You are talking about plausible deniability, so I assumed this is in relation to law enforcement.
You are talking about thousands of hours of work.
It's 10-20 manhours and most of it is letting an expert read the logs. I worked on the ISP side of such cases, it took us 1 minute to provide such data.
Your IP is not you and you can just say someone visiting was using your connection.
Brother, they'll take your router and dig though the logs. And if you clear them, it will look like you are trying to hide something so they'll have reason to dig deeper, so they'll ask your ISP, (your VPN which hopefully doesn't log) and various website operators for all their logs. You won't believe how much fingerprinting there is and how easy it is to figure out which device was doing what in your home. And if all the traffic is via VPN, you have no plausible deniability.
I found most people don't realize the many tiny features it adds over for example vscode (even with all the best plugins enabled yadayada) which in sum make it a much smoother developer experience.
Instead they open it for the first time, type some lines and say it is on par with vscode.
AI writing code for me made me the software architect I always dreamed of becoming.
I fucking LOVE to think about a hard problem for days, planning, researching, comming up with elegant solutions, doing quick POC, thinking what needs to be refactored for it to scale to a real life scenario, then documenting it all in a way that is properly communicating the important aspects in an easy to understand way. It's so exciting!
And I fucking HATE having to sit down and actually type out the solved code for hours and hours. It's so boring.
preferably something with WOL that goes silent and fanless when not in use, or something I can shut down with a button
Recently I saw a Traefik plugin that can send WOL packets to a machine when a service that is hosted there gets a network request. It also shuts down the device when it's not in use. You can set it up with a low power always on thing, like a rpi. I also have a buddy that set it up in a more diy way without Traefik so it's definitely something that can be done and will save you a lot of electricity in the long term.
As for the NAS, if you want to start small and cheap, there are N95 mini PC's for like 100-150$. Attatch an external multi TB drive to it via usb and viola there is your first NAS. It will also draw way less power than a full tower PC and still be basically plug and play.
You can do surprisingly much with very little hardware these days. And because the cost is so low you can upgrade later to exactly what you need. Only by trying out will you find out what you care about and want exactly. Online people keep suggesting their own personal preferences.
most common cause of a swollen battery is overcharging. Keeping your battery at a high state of charge can stress it out, allowing it to degrade faster. “In an application where you have a system plugged in 24/7, after a number of years your likelihood of getting a swollen battery increases,” says Phil Jakes, principal engineer and director of strategic technology at Lenovo. “The other thing that drives it is heat. Batteries don’t like to be hot, and there’s a chemical process that gets kicked off when a battery gets over 100 degrees.”
Don’t keep your device plugged in all the time. Batteries are cyclical and have to discharge and recharge to work effectively.
Keep your devices in cool, dry environments. Hot and humid weather conditions put more strain on batteries and can shorten their operating life over time.
When shopping for a new battery, buy from reputable manufacturers. It's generally better to buy a replacement from the original laptop maker than the cheapest compatible option from a third party.
Replace your battery—if you can—if you see its capacity drop too low. Manufacturers test their computer batteries to last up to three to four years, while an iPhone battery is meant to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 charge cycles. If you start to see any warning signs, replace it sooner rather than later.
Q: detailed problem description with research and links explaining how problem is different from existing posts and that the mentioned solutions did not work for this case.
A: duplicate. (links to same url Q explicitly mentioned and explained)
You are talking about plausible deniability, so I assumed this is in relation to law enforcement.
It's 10-20 manhours and most of it is letting an expert read the logs. I worked on the ISP side of such cases, it took us 1 minute to provide such data.