In the 90s my dad showed me his stack of IBM compatible 12 bit per column, 80 column card from his time working at the university physics department’s computer in the 70s. He had no access anymore to card readers and just kept the cards for sentimental value.

Most cards contain FORTRAN programs for the TR440 computer made by Telefunken.

Sorry, I have no further proof. :)

It absolutely is. A punch card represents a line of text, mostly in a programming language.

Do you have any access to internet services without registering with your name?

Maybe at public transportation, in a mall… Please don’t bring trouble to any small businesses.

Be prepared to find usual ports blocked and research on how to randomize your MAC address.

afraid.org does allow almost everyting.

I use their free service to setup my own dns tunnelling endpoint.

I’m running Wayland for many months now. Yust because why not. It just works. Debian sid with gnome here.

You can use SSH for unlocking: https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/