Yeah, but the key is: the old man is a Holocaust survivor.
He knows going in they might kill him, or worse. He knows fascism, death camps, and secret police.
If they kill him, he knows there'll be a massive public outcry: "ICE agents murder elderly Holocaust survivor." The agents' names and faces will be all over the news, and there will be sob stories from his family and friends. ICE will be publicly compared to Nazis. The agents themselves will be identified and outed even if mainstream media doesn't focus on it.
And he knows that the guys with guns are too stupid to realize HE has set THEM up for a trap.
You're welcome! Sometimes I wake it up with my wireless keyboard, other times I wake it up with the Thunderobot controller. I haven't gotten Bluetooth activity to wake it up, but then again I haven't tried hard.
I had to tweak the configuration so that it would wake up via activity from a USB device. But that's just part of getting used to managing your system's configuration, right? :)
antix is a great little distro. I've run it on similarly low-power machines, like a former Chromebook I repaired. And I quite enjoy its quirky interface, sort of a blend between old fashioned chunky UI and modern streamlined UX.
I run Bazzite and I have a few 8bitdo controllers. I've only ever used them via bluetooth, but once they are paired they work perfectly.
I do have a Thunderobot G45 I use via dongle. It plugs in and works, no configuration or software needed. And after I set up my system settings properly, I can also use it to wake the system from sleep. But that was a Linux thing, had nothing to do with the controller.
Any of the major distros will probably work with any big-name game controller.
And yet it's killed more humans than all the animals in Africa combined.