Yeah losing is maybe a bad example. What about a software update bricking the device, or a hardware problem?

Kinda like how I have it set up in linux except the system partition is the uki and the user password is LUKS2 passphrase

What devices are you expecting driver issues with? Even NVidia is not much of a problem these days

I knew someone who created a mandelbrot set viewer that would display over an VGA port, you had a game controller to move around and zoom into it. Something like that?

An RTOS compared to bare metal just means it is some nice abstractions that you would expect from an OS : tasks, mutexes rtc.

An RTOS compared to an OS like linux basically just means it is deterministic, you can guarantee some interrupt is handled within a certain time. Not necessarily faster

Cool, thanks for the clarification. The Wiki article was kind of confusing and seemed to refer to a bunch of topics from back in the tape punching days.

Calling them and asking for what exactly?

I have recently learned that in a pinch the band of a condom will do as well.

What are you looking for? Yocto experience? Experience writing drivers? C/Rust/C++? Hardware / FPGA experience as well?

You can manage containers with proxmox. The idea with proxmox is also to use something that you might encounter at work to practice with at home.

I mean I feel for you but cycling in the rain is not that big of a deal, greetings from the Netherlands