10 years salary up front or no deal.

Maybe Im off base here but I’d say like 10% of music leans right of center?

This idea sounds dumb. Just don’t listen to kid rock or ted Nugent, or most country, and you’re basically all set.

Then there’s like 3 bands per genre that are dog whistlers or overtly shitty humans.

Done?

If you’ll be running Linux and trying to use steam to run games, at all, avoid the 14th gen is.

If not, the 14th gen i9 is your bet.

Something with Proton, the layer that makes steam work with Linux, has been causing tons of people a lot of grief myself included. Any games that rely heavily on vulkan shaders will cause my whole system to crash under heavy load. It’s a known thing and Intel still seems clueless as to what to do to resolve it, afaik.

Auth portal for VPN tunnell -> Authelia -> fail2ban -> VLAN with services only.

ELK stack monitors the LAN. (Including VLAN)

Keep that VLAN segmented. You’re good unless you’re a DOGE employee, then I’d recommend quite a bit more security.

Stuff like that is usually some change made to catch bots.