honestly I don’t think it’s really a significant issue but if you’re worried just use a fs that can repair itself like zfs (not sure if btrfs can do that too but it might)

not sure where you are but in the US I see a lot of cheap used laptops being sold online with broken screens for example or messed up keyboard/touchpad, etc. stuff that would make it awful for use as a laptop but almost entirely unimportant for a server use-case (if the kb/touchpad is dead you can just plug in an external during initial setup/troubleshooting). of course you gotta make sure that it wasn’t damaged in a way that would matter more. ex: if the kb/touchpad are broken due to water damage I’d be wary of issues with other vital parts

it’s a single comment from a single bot that you can block. it’s probably useful for new people, there’s always mountains of acronyms in tech

beautiful solution

“alternatively obtained” is funny but yea I completely agree. also makes the project description much less clunky sounding and more descriptive.