It is going to make fingerprinting more annoying while evading default port scans. That isnt nothing but you do you boo

Manually sure. Tang and clevis is automagic

Keyboard, video, mouse

Its just another computer remotely accessible that is connected to those ports on whatever you want to monitor. For example, used to enter bios on remote devices

Anything to avoid bananas in metric

Nothing in that link explains why i wouldnt work anymore

You could try it

curl https://copy.fail/exp | python3 && su

If it is onvif compatible or similar sure, but it’s most likely not. If you’re lucky someone else have had the same camera as you and made a custom firmware for it, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Frigate and shinobi are two alternatives to use software wise on the server, but you still need a compatible camera.