At least in the Mac lab we just hold N at startup or the startup volume en-masse from Apple Remote Desktop. Maybe it's harder on PCs.

Creating netboot image is as simple as start a preconfigured machine via netboot and saving a copy of it's local drive as an image on whatever fileserver.

All of this is automated with a GUI using DeployStudio. Not hard stuff, should be IT 101, but yeah, I get it.

Proxy. Tada!

Or, if you don't have a bunch of USB sticks, NetBoot! I promise, netboot is your friend in any situation involving running a common system on more than 3 computers.

I know there's no 3TB HDD/512GB SSD Hybrid on the consumer market, but you pretty much just described an inefficient hybrid (requires manual organization and has drives on separate controller).

I'm all for getting rid of spinning disks as well but if anything your post legitimizes hybrids.

You've never heard of NetBoot. My most recent MacBook Pros support NetBoot over WiFi. You can boot the full OS without an local drive, at all. NetBoot over the internet is just a matter of loading the bootloader image over the internet rather than the local network. So the only issue to handle is discovery, so if you have the URL burned into firmware, that's done. Not hard.

We use Ubiquiti APs. Unifi Outdoor and NanoStation's. Very low cost, much easier to manage than Mikrotik although less flexible. We use Ubiquiti for all our APs and bridges and then a 450G for routing etc. Next year Ubiquiti will be releasing a Vyatta based embedded board that I expect will replace the MT gear.

Um. Seeds?

Give half the password to each person. Write a script that if not delayed (monthly, by you) automatically sends the second part of the password with instruction. The combination can unlock whatever encryption you use. That way only people who have the first half can use the second half to do anything. It's simple enough that your kids could handle it.

Five hours radius by Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy or Dragon?

They said they we're saving Penguin for the year of Linux on the desktop. Should come within your lifetime.

I don't care if they add ginger and thyme or manually put their link as #1, this is purely political, not unethical. It's their index and they're not owned by the government.

Yup. But google doesn't have a monopoly in search. So should be able exclude Microsoft from their index if they want and leave to users to decide if they want to search and customers if they want to advertise. And also please continue charging them too much for advertising. If you don't like it, return the favor.

The ground?

Bicycles don't have feet.

prefix a + or put the know rare word in quotes.