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What about wiping the hard drive and re-installing a fresh operating system? Finding and cleaning out any "nasties" which, depending on how tech savvy your 'Ex' and his cohorts may be, could be very time consuming and difficult. One other thing to do right away - change all your passwords!

In my experience any errors in the RAM will show up rather quickly.

Perhaps you should try running a RAM test. I've seen a faulty stick of RAM cause some pretty odd behavior. Something like MemTest86+

This one made me smile and nod in agreement:

This may not be helpful or even apply in this situation - but - I had problems installing Linux on an old Mac Book, Ubuntu & Mint wouldn't even get off the ground. But I did manage to get Linux Lite installed. The only issue was the keyboard. Some keys worked - sort of - some did not work -...

Excellent question! I wouldn't have thought of that!

Good article. I don't very often use wget but I had never thought about the certificates issue with it. Nice. I agree that not every site 'needs' HTTPS or other security certs. Probably no need to mention this to anyone using wget but to someone just starting out with it - it may be worth...

I hadn't noticed . . . . and probably never will. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It should be included in the package. Check the "Read Me" file.

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"Freedom"

Not sure which you are referring to but here are some links: My Hard Drive Died CENTER FOR MEMORY AND RECORDING RESEARCH Scott Moulton over at My Hard Drive Died mentions some Russian guy who has software tools available which can access the drive at a very low level.

I agree. That's been my experience also. A VM is good for a quick spin around but to get the full effect I like to install on 'bare metal'. That's where having a spare box or two just for playing around and experimenting comes in handy.

Inconceivable ! ! !

No, you don't. Whether or not you should depends on your level of exposed assets and the degree of risk you are willing to take.

Did you create bootable install media and use that to run the installation from?

Multiple overwrites will generally make the data unrecoverable for all practical purposes. The site "MyHardDriveDied" has some very good and interesting information regarding this. He does forensic file recovery. But here is the thing I have not seen mentioned here and which many people forget...

Thank you.

Are you using a VPN?

If you want to re-boot the system perhaps REISUB would work. Not sure how to kill one process if keyboard is unresponsive but perhaps using just the R of the above would work https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-reboot-turn-off-your-frozen-computer-reisub-reisuo/3855