Keep a super long story short, getting a Laptop from my University as the course starts in September, and the benefit I have applied for which covers my university course in the UK includes a Laptop.
They pay for the majority of the price.
Intel i5 10th generation or AMD Ryzen 5 4000 8 GB 512 SSD graphics Onboard
Onboard graphics Operating system Windows 10 64 Bit 10 64 Bit 2.8 kg
These are the minimum specs it will come with.
As a privacy consciousness individual, and since I will require the Laptop formy course at university, andpotentially a job, one day perhaps, I would like to make the laptop as privacy friendly and hardened as possible.
I want to basically make it a safe device. I need it to be not monitoring me, or watching me.
Potentinally there will be some sort of system or software that can monitor my activities through my.university orbenefitss people.
As it is for studying and for working, I think best to keep the same operating system (OS) Also I have only ever used windows in my life. Never Linux other than a virtual system on my host windows 11 pro edition PC.
My PC has an amd ryzen 55 000 CPU.
Thanks.
Universities often have requirements for student computers in order to use their online or distance learning software and anti cheat/anti llm stuff.
Your first step is gonna be to figure out what that is so you can choose an operating system. The most sleek, trimmed down, hackerman version of windows 10 or linux isn’t gonna cut it if you can’t do your classes on it.
The next thing to accept is giving over control of your device to the university. It is often a requirement, separate but intertwined with their educational software, that you allow them to install at the very least a dns shim but often much much more in order for your device to be recognized as a student computer that’s allowed to access university resources.
Recognizing the above three points, you can’t have what you’re asking for.
You can’t have a “safe device” that’s “not monitoring you” when someone else is the administrator. And in the case of university students, your schools it department is the administrator or you can’t access school resources.
Your real, honest to god best bet is to have a separate device.
It doesn’t even seem like a very good computer, just buy one you want and use it to look at porn instead of the one the university paid for.