I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country

Fun (sad?) fact: AOL will soon shut down dial up on September 30th 2025: https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

Can’t recall them, but there are some words in which I keep typing double letters even though they aren’t supposed to be there.

Yes, of course. That always assumes a lack of good choice (i.e. no choice also being a bad option).

In various technical contexts

You probably do this all the time without thinking much about it. For example, updating mains-powered devices without UPS. There’s a chance the power goes out and something gets screwed up.

Or in a VM

Problem is, some of this software may likely be made to specifically not run in a VM, since it is supposed to keep track of everything the student is doing during exams.

I just realized I sound way too paranoid but it’s an interesting question

Nope. Not paranoid enough. If school/work requires such software, that goes onto a separate device only for those purposes, which will then be considered untrustworthy environment like any public computer.

Although perhaps in a sense it is paranoid compared to what others do. Recently I’ve had to get something printed without having own printer. I’ve found out people have no problem logging into their Google or Microsoft account on public PCs.
I brought the PDF on a CD.
There’s a certain small chance that something malicious could be written to a USB, and I don’t know about all the possible vulnerabilities. If mounted, perhaps the automatic media thumbnail generator could be exploited. That is probably paranoid, worrying about random software installed on your own computer is certainly not.

How are you doing it?

I only tried X11 forwarding over SSH. It was slow and ate up a Gigabit.

Well, you may be surprised then to find it’s being funded by NLnet, which apparently gets its money from the EU.

How would I know that?

I’ll drop a knee-breaking one:

I was born in 2006.

OK, you know what, I declare my house the container. Now what?

It still looks like that, aside from the datk mode issue, but only in landscape orientation.

I hope there will be at least some bypass using ADB like with older apps.

Why do we even call it “sideloading”? I can install whatever I want on desktop, even whatever OS, so why not my phone? It is my phone, right?

By default you choose between Cloudflare and NextDNS.

It is going to cost money to buy phones, unpack them, upload the OS, test the product, then repack them and ship them. I would expect that to cost at least $20, probably more.

Well, proxysto.re does that with GrapheneOS: https://shop.proxysto.re/de/i/pixel/

€50, based on the discount on stock ROM, although €20 out of that goes to GrapheneOS apparently. Based on donation amounts, they sold 67 of them in 2024

Like Fairphone shipping with e/OS? https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system

I have L390 Yoga. Pretty nice thing, and the screen was a good punch coming from typical new cheap TN panel laptops.
I got it refurbished for €180.

It can also charge with 5V, but only from a real USB-C. USB-A to C won’t work.