didn’t everyone learn XY on paper on a desk first?

No. I was plugging in crazy combinations of r, theta, x, y, z, t, and anything else shown in the built-in demo of that old Mac 3D graphing calculator app years before my teachers got to explaining coordinate systems. I had no idea what most of it meant, but I could make cool looking animated graphics as a third grader…

Also, I found GameMaker which introduced me to using X to the right and Y down in 2D (with the origin in the top-left corner) before algebra was taught to me in school…

Wow, I didn’t realize. How time flies. 😲️

Thank you!

The fifth instance denied my application with, “read the coc and reapply”

Don’t know what instance that is specifically, but if their application process is anything like reddthat’s lemmy application process, there’s probably a bit in there about something specific you’re supposed to include in the application so they can weed out bots.

What is the best way to get Minecraft Education (not regular Minecraft) on Linux?

Not familiar with that version of Minecraft, but looking it up it seems like there’s a Windows version of it. Have you tried the Windows version under WINE/Proton already?

You’d think a bunch of cryptographers would use Shamir’s secret sharing to avoid issues like this…

It looks like the connector is U.2 so I’d look for motherboards that indicate support for that explicitly. From a quick search, it looks like SuperMicro makes some. This is getting out of my area of expertise though; I just know the crazy drives exist…

Assume an unlimited budget for now, I just want to know what’s out there.

I mean, if you’re willing to pay the price of a car per SSD they go up to at least 122TB density per drive… (e.g. Solidigm SBFPF2BV0P12001 D5-P5336 – $16K~$20K depending on supplier from a quick search)

I don’t actually recommend that for personal use, but since you were curious about what’s out there, there’s some absolutely crazy shit in enterprise server gear if you have deep enough pockets.

Are you doing anything like network mounts? I’ve had freezes happen when home was mounted remotely. I’ve also had freezes before – though not recently – when doing extremely intensive I/O operations. I’ve also seen it with failing hardware, but I don’t remember what hardware was failing specifically (if we ever found out – that was an always-on display system at work, and we might have just replaced it since it was ancient at that point…).

See if you can switch from GUI to console (either on the system or SSH-ing in). Usually the Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys switch between GUI and full screen console modes if you’re physically there to try it. If you can get in, you might be able to get some insight into what’s going on from logs, top, etc. while it’s happening.

Just run a web server and expose the specific files you want to share through that?