Who cares? It’s over and done. Too late.

You are not done with this disease. It can happen to you again.

The obvious conclusion is: Get the vax.

They don’t mention it here, but there appears to be a similar broad positive effect from pretty much any vaccination. It seems that firing up the immune system is generally good for you, and the benefits spread to areas seemingly unrelated to the shot itself. This is relatively new info to me. I’ve never done the seasonal flu vaccine, but I’m going to start, for exactly this reason. Well, that and I’ll be there anyway for covid shots …

I have one keyboard with its own display, an old G15. I went through all the work to set it up. Used it to track system stats for a week. Went back to my Unicomp and the ‘fancy’ G15 has sat in my junk pile since.

Keyboards to not need displays. They are for typing. You shouldn’t even look at your fingers, let alone a display.

Do it. Jump in. Just start with whatever you can assemble.
It’s a great way to keep your room warm.

I don’t know about the Ubuntu LCX. I don’t container much.

I’d do this with a virtual machine and TrueNAS. Those are just the tools I like to use. The TrueNAS Scale ISO will install qemu-guest-agent, so you don’t need to worry about drivers. Make sure to build it with Virtio SCSI Single disk controllers. Use one 50gb OS disk for the install. Add huge data disk(s) after the install.
Promox Disk options … SSD emulation, Discard, IO Thread, No cache … and I use Write Back (unsafe). Use the Virtio NIC.

And try it again. Hopefully faster this time.