I just did some more research and aparently my intel was a bit outdatet (from arount 2020). The guide should still work, though booting from SSD should be working by default and does not require any eeprom-updates. So you can probably start with step 4.

Raspberry Pi4? Then yes, here’s a guide to update your bootloader:

https://www.raspberrystreet.com/learn/how-to-boot-raspberrypi-from-usb-ssd

For older models(Pi<4), no but kinda: Afaik oder models could only boot from SD-cards. But that only means the bootloader has to be on the SD-card. So you can copy everything but the bootpartition and change the entry in the /etc/fstab to the new root on the SSD.

We’re way past that.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-relocking-bootloader-on-custom-roms.3927450/

Tl,dr: Yes it is, but your ROM and recovery must be signed.

Oh yeah good point, I didn’t think about server side compression. But I think noise videos might still be worse, since they provide no additional content for the platform.

Oh sorry on Jerboa it does not show Community descriptions and I did not see the rules. But I am kind of curious tho, does it need do be worded like that? I wrote you should know this, if you want to keep the costs down, doesn’t that count? :P

A fellow cs mayor I see, no I apreciate the thoroughness. You are right I was trying to put it in laymans terms and might have been a little to cursory.

I gotta disagree on the pseudo randomness tho. At least in linux /dev/random generates its entropy pool by using device drivers. So there is no simple algorithm behind it where you can copy a seed. So you would have to to copy the system state and all external events happening (eg. the ethernet network traffic) to generate the same output.