32gb loop of Never Gonna Give You Up

I encrypt the whole disk.

I wouldn’t do that without looking at the stock price history.

BS. It’s been falling since Dec 2023. And it’s been around the current level for the past year.

If there’s nothing precious, wipe it.

Mounting a drive is the function of the OS. If you mean automatically disabling a port, no, typically motherboards don’t have that functionality.

The Internet is a free place, in the sense that it’s very, very public.

Expose the VPN and nothing else, if you can. There are always automated attacks scanning literally the entire Internet.